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Spoof hack leaves red faces at Leeds football club
News Leeds' official Web site is actually located at lufc.co.uk -- the dotcom site was merely a spoof. Leeds United fans visiting lufc.com Wednesday were shocked to find an animated figure doing something unmentionable to their team's badge with a...
[March 30, 2000, 7:57]
Fresh IE flaw report probed
News A new flaw in Internet Explorer could be exploited to launch spoof-based attacks, or access and change data on vulnerable machines, security experts have warned. An attacker could spoof a legitimate Web site, access data from the Web browser's...
[September 29, 2005, 9:00]
Startup Spotlight: Plastic is fundamental element of eShui
News E-business company Intronets launched spoof site eShui this month in order to lure more businesses to their parent e-business site. Since the launch of eShui in August, Intronets claims to have "attracted serious hits from eShui", but Wicking...
[August 25, 2000, 14:32]
Microsoft offers prank Blue Screen Of Death
News Sysinternals provides professional system utilities for Windows system management and troubleshooting, and has also offered a spoof Blue Screen of Death for some time. But antivirus vendors are not impressed with the spoof screensaver software...
[November 14, 2006, 13:19]
Massive IE phishing exploit discovered
News A vulnerability researcher posted details of a dangerous Internet Explorer (IE) flaw on Thursday that allows phishers to spoof Web sites more realistically than ever before. According to security company Secunia, Paul from Greyhats -- a research...
[December 17, 2004, 12:10]
'Swen' worm poses as security patch
Talkback Here we go again, this spoof email is going to FOOL a lot of people. I just received this spoof email that appears to be a legitimate security update from Microsoft. I have so get so many spoof emails that looks like a PayPal or eBay email that I'm...
[September 19, 2003, 16:59]
Malware spoofs search sites
News People with infected machines who try to visit those popular search sites are redirected to spoof versions, antivirus company Panda Software said Friday. The spoof sites serve up bogus search results intended to generate traffic and revenue for...
[October 3, 2005, 9:40]
Vista gets the rock'n'roll treatment
Blog Bruce ServicePack and the Vista Street Band is a genuine spoof from Microsoft. Also, it's actually funny enough to fool the gadget-freaks at Gizmodo who updated their horrified posting to say "The video is an internal spoof, an insider confirms".
[April 17, 2008, 11:22]
PayPal users targeted by email scam
News However, the latest spoof email -- which included a PayPal logo, links to PayPal's site and official-looking fine-print -- appeared particularly convincing, said Brenda Frymire, a PayPal user in California who received the email on Thursday.
[March 10, 2003, 11:12]
Net laughs at itself on April Fool's
News GigaLaw.com's Sidd Finch, who wrote the spoof on Napster's financial and legal woes, joked that funds for Microsoft's acquisition of the file-swapping service were provided by former dot-commers, including ex-Webvan CEO George Shaheen.
[April 2, 2002, 14:58]
Google exec plays Shakira mash-up to business leaders
News In an attempt to illustrate the importance of new consumer created content types - and showcase his company's recent purchase of online video site YouTube - Arora played a video clip of the diminutive Latin singer in which the normal music video...
[November 27, 2006, 16:41]
Microsoft: Customised security is safer
News People are likely to customise the secure pages, which will help prevent "spoof attacks," where hackers plant a fraudulent Web page on a PC screen that looks, but isn't, a file from a person's doctor or accountant, for example.
[May 9, 2003, 9:07]
Security pros dig in for new DoS attacks
News The functionality also gives users the ability to spoof the IP address of the originating machine, something not possible with out-of-the-box Windows 9x installations. However, officials of the software company and some security specialists say...
[June 18, 2001, 16:05]
Scientists pore over biometric-spoofing tests
News Schuckers said in a pre-released statement: "Since liveness detection is based on the recognition of physiological activities as signs of life, we hypothesised that fingerprint images from live fingers would show a specific changing moisture...
[December 22, 2005, 11:05]
Tech heavyweights fight identity theft
News EBay has begun waging a public awareness campaign of its own against so-called spoof sites. Earlier this year, eBay teamed with the FTC and a number of states to tackle spoof sites and other online auction fraud.
[September 3, 2003, 9:09]
Mozilla Firefox 1.0 review
Reviews A criminal hacker might be able to spoof the location bar address, but he or she won't be able to spoof this secondary address display. Firefox 1.0 runs on a variety of Windows operating systems, including Windows 98 through XP, as well as on Mac...
[November 10, 2004, 12:58]
Symantec throttles automatic virus-notification 'spam'
Talkback I am being inundated with spoof e-mails from Mailer Daemon, can I forward them to you for disposal?
[May 17, 2004, 23:00]
Five killer web apps for the downturn
Blog The ever-reliable telecoms analyst James Enck has blogged a spoof list of five new "Web 3.0" apps suited to the economic crisis and its effects. I won't replicate it, as the post deserves to be read in its entirety, but I will throw extra kudos his...
[October 27, 2008, 13:58]
El Airplane
Downloads This game is a spoof on popular scrolling shooters. You are to pilot the most unusual airplane in the world. Actually, the flying chariot is a more appropriate word. Your goal is to get to the finish, destroying the enemies on the way.
[November 30, 2006, 8:03]
ChangeMAC
Downloads Application to spoof your Ethernet or Airport mac address. It will also generate a random address for you. Admin password required to change mac addresses. Choice of vendor for random generation. Just copy to your applications folder to install.
[June 29, 2009, 3:42]
