Saw an interestingly different phishing scam mail today; one purporting to be alerting customers to phishing scams, and requesting they contact the bank on an 800 toll-free number (no doubt paid for with a stolen card) in order to unblock access to their account.
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Turkey’s World Focus Airlines decided to rebrand their company to “Ank Air” - shame they didn’t think about the consequences of putting that next to their existing “W”-shaped logo 
A friend just passed on a link to a Sony camera case on Amazon with a rather unfortunate name - the LCS-TWAT. Not sure I’d want to insert my camera into a brown leathery TWAT myself, but each to their own 
Either they weren’t thinking, or it’s clever viral marketing….
(Click for full-size screenshot, in case the original item on Amazon happens to get pulled/renamed or anything).
Here’s a story I just posted at work about Network Solutions holding domains to ransom:
It appears that Network Solutions are immediately registering all domains searched for. In what I consider a highly shady move, Network Solutions have started immediately registering domain names when customers search for them via the Network Solutions website, and holding them for 4 days - effectively meaning that if you checked whether it was available using their domain search tools, you now have no choice but to buy it from them, locking out all other registrars.
I tested it by searching for network-solutions-stole-my-domain.com which was previously untaken, and within minutes, they’d registered it - see a whois lookup for confirmation.
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Surely this can’t be right - the FAA claims that the 787’s passenger compartment network is connected to the plane’s control systems!
From the Wired story:
The computer network in the Dreamliner’s passenger compartment, designed to give passengers in-flight internet access, is connected to the plane’s control, navigation and communication systems, an FAA report reveals.
The revelation is causing concern in security circles because the physical connection of the networks makes the plane’s control systems vulnerable to hackers. A more secure design would physically separate the two computer networks. Boeing said it’s aware of the issue and has designed a solution it will test shortly.
I find it hard to believe that the network to which passengers are granted access would have any link to the plane’s private control/navigation systems, but, if it is, whoever thought that was a sensible idea needs shooting!
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