US-based gaming Website, The Game Monsters, has been implicated in the latest round of phishing scams targeting Westpac customers, according to security experts. The phishing emails tell customers that an attempt to access their online account was supposedly denied that day. This is a variation of a previous phishing e-mail that Westpac customers were warned on the 14 November.

This e-mail reads: “An attempt to access Online Banking was denied on: Monday, 26 Nov 2007 at 6:25:46 EST. Access was denied for one of two reasons: Incorrect attempts to access and Login failures; signing on from a different location or device different from your location and your IP address.”

Recipients of the e-mail were then asked to confirm this by either clicking one of two image links - “That was me” or “That was NOT me” - to verify whether that they have attempted to make a transaction at the time mentioned. The links redirected to a server in the UK, and has been taken down according to PC Tools.

“The script is a simple redirection, however we can’t see the ultimate target, which I assume is also in the UK but it could be anywhere. One of our ex-employees works for Westpac Security so we know they deal with this stuff all the time, so I can assume it’s been taken down. Most of these scams are online less than 12 hours,” Jim Meem, security researchers at PC Tools, told ZDNet Australia.

The site pointed to siwhite.co.uk, which is registed to The Game Monsters. “The address given is one in Florida but the site looks fake,” said F-Secure global threat response manager, Patrik Runald.

Security firm Secunia has reported an “extremely critical” vulnerability in media-streaming program Apple QuickTime. This flaw, which affects the latest versions of QuickTime, 7.x, which has not been patched and could allow a hacker to gain remote control of an affected system. It lies in a boundary error where the program processes Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) replies, according to Secunia’s advisory published on Monday.

RTSP allows a client to a remotely control video streams.

Working exploit code is in the wild, said Secunia and has linked the details to the code to another security research site, milw0rm, which is where the vulnerability initially recorded by Polish security researcher Krystian Klowskowski.

According to Kloskowski, exploit code can be executed on Windows Vista and Windows XP Service Pack 2. Secunia is advising that users do not browse untrusted websites, follow untrusted links or open untrusted QuickTime Media Link files.

Missed the speech, you can now get it here since I recorded it. You will also need the DivX codec (or XviD - it can handle it too) to play it.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2RHFYDV7

File Size is about 141.7MB, Zip File.

This is the election update for 9am, only 75.6% of the votes have been counted.

Source : AEC

Well Folks, That brings up to an end for our Election 2007 coverage. Check back tomorrow for more information, I hope you enjoyed the coverage. Before I leave I will list the people helping in this:

Terence Huynh
Stewart Wilson
James Davis (installing polling script)

Remember you can always be a writer for tech.geek eather contact the reawaken networks or you can contact any member of the tech.geek team.

Goodnight!

I’ve decided this is my last post for tonight….

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Here is the update for 11PM, atm Kevin is speaking on Channel Nine and Channel Seven or the ABC Live stream.

I’ve decided to take over on the updates….
So, Kevin has been announced the winner of the election but here are the results as of 10:32:22 PM:

By The Way :- I will be stopping at 12PM. Still 1.5 hours to go!

Seven Network is reporting that Kevin Rudd is now Prime Minister, after John Howard has phoned Mr. Rudd to concede defeat. However, Howard may still be a MP, with Maxine McKew still not claiming victory as it is on “knife edge”.

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