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Offline Clive

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Beware! A spate of malicious emails have been spammed out by online criminals, disguised as legitimate communications from the UK branch of online retail giant Amazon.

In a widespread attack, email messages have been distributed designed to trick computer users into opening an attachment disguised as information about an order for an unnamed item.


http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/05/14/amazon-malware-email/?utm_source=Naked+Security+-+Sophos+List&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail&utm_campaign=f7f50818c4-naked%252Bsecurity&utm_term=0_31623bb782-f7f50818c4-418447017

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Re: Fake Amazon UK emails spammed out, delivering malware
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2013, 16:45 »
Space Weather News for May 14, 2013
http://spaceweather.com

Solar activity is high.  During a 24 hour period straddling May 13th and 14th, the sun unleashed three X-class solar flares.  These are the strongest flares of the year so far, and they signal a significant increase in solar activity.  The source of the flares, a large sunspot on the sun's eastern limb, appears poised to erupt again as it turns toward Earth.  Check http://spaceweather.com for updates and more information.


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Re: Fake Amazon UK emails spammed out, delivering malware
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2013, 17:23 »
Have you been at the Sanatogen again, Clive?    ':|

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Re: Fake Amazon UK emails spammed out, delivering malware
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2013, 18:36 »
Quite!  ;D
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Re: Fake Amazon UK emails spammed out, delivering malware
« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2013, 23:16 »
Ah, I wondered what happened to that post!   :blush: 


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