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BBC Lottery: Have you won too?

You must be the luckiest person on the planet – You keep winning lotteries! Here’s the latest notification – straight from Aunty Beeb herself, the BBC.

Bogus BBC lottery email

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Missing dots from email addresses opens 20GB data leak

Man in the middle attack.

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Security researchers have captured 120,000 emails intended for Fortune 500 companies by exploiting a basic typo. The emails included trade secrets, business invoices, personal information about employees, network diagrams and passwords.

Researchers Peter Kim and Garrett Gee did this by buying 30 internet domains they thought people would send emails to by accident (a practice known as typosquatting).

The domain names they chose were all identical to subdomains used by Fortune 500 companies save for a missing dot.

Having purchased the domains they simply sat back and watched as users mistakenly sent them over 120,000 emails in six months.

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Nicole’s baby kicking video is a Facebook scam

A video of baby kicking inside his mother’s pregnant belly is the latest lure being used by Facebook scammers – and judging by the number of readers from Naked Security who have reported it to us, it’s spreading like wildfire.

AWESOME Video Nicole's Baby Kicking - The Belly View - Unbelievable

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An amazing view of a baby kicking and moving his way out of the belly while at the beach.

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Stanford Hospital leaks 20,000 patient records

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Over 20,000 records of patients who visited the emergency room at Stanford Hospital in 2009 were posted on the internet for over a year it was disclosed today.

The leaked information included names, diagnosis codes, account numbers, admission and discharge dates, and billing charges according to the New York Times.

The information was posted to the website Student of Fortune, a site where students can pay for tutorials on how to complete their homework.

A spreadsheet with the sensitive information was attached to a question posted to the site asking if someone could explain how to convert the information into a bar graph.

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Sleazy slutty emails bombard inboxes, carrying malware

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As many North Americans return to their offices after a long Labor Day weekend, they may find something unpleasant in their email inboxes.

A malware campaign has been widely distributed over the last couple of days, using a wide variety of different subject lines and attachment names.

There’s one thing in common between all the emails, however. All of the emails use sleazy slutty language to trick red-blooded men (we assume) into open the attached file.

The many different messages claim to come from what some would euphemistically describe as online “dating” websites. Typically the emails will claim to contain photos of a young woman in her twenties, who isn’t fussy about what kind of man she would like to hook up with (some say ages “between 21-99″ are fine).

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Hurricane Irene clickjacking scam on Facebook

States in the USA, such as Vermont and New Jersey, are continuing to deal with heavy flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene.

And we weren’t surprised to find internet scammers attempting to profit from other people’s misery.

For instance, here is a clickjacking scam which at the time of writing is still active on Facebook.

Hurricane Irene Facebook clickjacking scam

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