Okay this time its Twitter! People started receiving emails as if it was sent from Twitter and asking them to login to a website which looks like Twitter (in simple words, phishing email). Here is what Twitter has to say about it.

It looks as though this particular scam sent out emails resembling those you might receive from Twitter if you get email notifications of your Direct Messages. The email said, “hey! check out this funny blog about you…” and then provided a link. That link redirected to a site masquerading as the Twitter front page.

If you didn’t look at the URL of this false Twitter page, then you might not have noticed that it was actually just a page on the domain access-logins.com which was also faking Facebook’s front page. We immediately reported the offending domain (and warned our friends at Facebook). The site is now on OpenDNS’ and Google’s reported phishing lists.

Twitter has also added a message on top of their home page too.

Firefox has already started blocking the website. You can read more about it here. Even afte so many warnings from people and Twitter, it seems some one fellow just logged in

I read a very useful post on makeusof.com today and thought I would share with my readers. If you are a person, like me, who works with lot of websites, then this post is for you. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/map-your-ftp-drive-as-a-local-drive-with-netdrive-windows-only/

I am back with another iphone post. I would like to take back what I wrote some time back about iPhone. Don’t remember ? I am talking abou the post “iPhone is a piece of shit” .

I was thinking that iPhone was just an useless object till I read this post about how to use an iPhone as an external harddisk. Check it out!

Yeah!! in a very short time the 4th BarCamp is here. After the first BarCampKerala in Trivandrum, the second and third in Kochi, the fourth will be conducted at IIM Kozhikode.

This event is held in conjuction with the IIM-K’s Annual Management and Cultural Festival - ‘BACKWATERS’ scheduled on 16th, 17th and 18th of January 2009. This fest will host 15+ Management Events and Cultural Events that will see participation from 50+ top B-Schools across the country. The events also see participation from 1500+ Corporate Delegates, IIMK Alumni, Entrepreneurs, Undergraduates, etc

Check this page for more information.

If you dont know what is jata and how it started, read this. Finally the beta version of jata is released and yo can download it from http://www.codeplex.com/jata/

jata automatically checks for new messages. You can also post or reply to tweets right from jata. I am planning to add more features like chat, web cam support, sound effects etc in the near future.

Install jata and let me know what you hink about it.

Here is a very interesting story (may be stupid story) for you to think about. Today one of my friend called me and said he was cheated online. He paid $60 for a horoscope report from www.aboutastro.com and he did not get it.  My first reaction was “What the …!!! sixty dollars for an useless report?”. I asked him whether he read any reviews before going for the deal? “Well. No!” was his answer.

Ok!! before writing what exactly happened let me share you one of my experience with online reviews. I own a compaq presario v3225au laptop and before buying this I read reviews about this model for atleast 2 months. I also made sure I was not wastin my money by enquiring about this product with others who own it. Once I was happy with my selection I ordered the laptop and so far I am more than happy with its performance.

Now back to the horoscope story. My friend. who is fond of these astrology stuff, decided to get a paid report about his future from aboutastro.com. He tried out their free report and found it true. So he paid them 60$ for a detailed report and he is still waiting for the report.  He showed me some of the email from an astrologer named Jenna and it ws pretty interesting. All emails were written as if she was his guardian angel and wants him to realise where he was heading (no wonder he fell for it ).

I thought I will give it a try myself. I signed up for a free report. but this time I gave my emil ID as shobankr+aa@gmail.com. Gmail is very intelligent in delivering all emails to this ID to my original ID shobankr@gmail.com Guess what even before I received my free horoscope report. I started receiving emails from doctors all around the world giving me tips to increase my ***** size . these guys were also ready to send free viagara to me. And to add more flavour I also won a lottery of 60,000 pounds from UK national lottery.

I checked the header of all these emails and guess what they were all addressed to shobankr+aa@gmail.com. These guys sold my email ID.

I was 100% sure that aboutastro was nothing but a site owned by a bunch of few idiots who want to earn some quick money.

I did a whois check up for this site and more interesting stuff turned up. The site is registered to some address in France. Did I tell you that these guys had their HO at United States?

Last I did a quick google search for “Jenna horoscope fraud” and landed in a very interesting discussion about this scam!

Atleast I am happy that my friend was not alone

So next time, before making an online deal, make sure you know about the product completely. Oh! BTW did you read about my experience with Indiatimes shopping ?

Check out this useful list of mobile codes. So next time when you get a miss call you know where to look

http://mobilecodes.blogspot.com/

Kogan intros world’s second Android phone: Agora / Agora Pro. Check out the details here

The FBI is reminding people this holiday season that cyber criminals continue to aggressively seek ways to steal money and personal information. Scammers are using several techniques to fool potential victims including sending unsolicited e-mails that contain attachments such as electronic greeting cards containing malware (malicious software), setting up spoofing websites that look like legitimate commercial sites, and unleashing phishing and vishing attacks where individuals receive e-mails asking for personal data. Read more here.

I stumbled upon this today

http://goingtorain.com/

goingtorain.com tells you whether it will rain or not, in your location, based on your network IP. Its a nice site to spend(waste) some time when you are feeling bored. You can also change the location to check whether it will rain or not.