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I'm moving my blog to http://radi.r-n-d.org/

Although I'd still keep this as an archive, all new posts will be published there.

Over the past few months I heard plenty of fairy tales about how Bulgarian hackers are l33t. They break anything and everything. Well... that's the myth. Here is the reality.

 

A few years back I registered to a web service, neterra.net, which was streaming Bulgarian television. The service required a name and an e-mail address. So far nothing wrong... except that a few months back I began receiving SPAM & newsletters that were intended for other people. Cool! I get behind enemy lines. :)

 

To keep the story short: today I received a newsletter from Skype. I've had an account there before, so my initial thoughts were that the newsletter was associated with my account somehow. Negative -- somebody else registered their own Skype account using my e-mail address. Sweet! I have a new Skype account. :)

 

Moral of the story: Don't be a dumbass registering yourself for different services using other people's e-mail addresses. This is extremely true especially if you're going to pay for some of the services! :)

Recently Microsoft launched a charity campaign via its MSN Messenger. More details about it can be found at http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/.

 

I encourage everyone who uses the service to participate.

The Matrix owns us... officially. :)

 

Recent story that I ran into was talking about a phishing attempt where the victims were asked for their CC info. Nothing unusual until I started reading the comments where the following case popped up:

 

So aside from the legal actions that should be taken, I wonder what would be the technological meassures against such fraud.