About Phishing Sites

After years of working on different servers for several clients and maintaining a email scam alerts site, I came to realize that some if not all websites having these Phishing pages are victims from hackers trying to exploit the servers.

One cause could be the coding used by websites such as unsecure PHP scripts and file permissions. Some of the sites I have worked on have been hacked and hackers upload their own files that they use to send out mass email scams and phishing sites. Another cause could be the servers themselves are not secure enough to become a web server.

The typical files loaded to the server are: a mail form (either PHP or ASP), fake html pages of a site with login form, images used for the fake site and a sendmail form to send all the login details entered to the fake site. These files are uploaded and scattered everywhere on the site’s server so make sure you delete all of them once your site gets hacked.

Some phishing sites do actually look like the real site, the only difference is the domain name. One example would be this: The real site is https://www.securedomainwebsite.com/login.php and the fake site is http://securedomainwebsite.com.anothersite.com/login.php.

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Getting Your Nose Fixed

I know of someone who is somewhat insecure on the shape of his nose. He’s a good friend of mine. There are times when the whole gang would meet and he would ask about the shape of his nose. He would say that he would look more handsome and appealing if only he could reshape his nose. We would tell him that his nose looks good on him and he doesn’t need to worry about it but he would insist that he needs surgery to make it look better. It’s quite unusual though to hear such complaints from a man but good friends as we are, we supported him on his decision to undergo Continue reading »

Stay at Home or Go to the Club?

I’ve never been to any clubs or bars. It may sound unbelievable, but it’s absolutely true. I just don’t dig those kinds of places. I am a couch potato. I can stay at home even on Friday nights and weekends where I would watch any films shown on cable or watch rented DVDs. Some of my friends would invite me to join them on weekend night outs but I gladly declined them. I know that most men my age would certainly love to go out and have fun at bars or clubs spending time with friends and meeting new people but for me, I’m just not that type of guy. It doesn’t mean though that I don’t know how to have fun but I would prefer traveling to other places and go swimming on a lovely beach than going out Continue reading »