phishing
i got phished! can you believe it? as computer savvy as i am. shit i've written viruses in my head. the execution was good enough. the thing that made it successful was the social engineering part. see... i have an account with yahoo. and i tell the computer to remember by password. but alisa uses it too. so whenever she logs in from her computer i have to re-enter the password from my computer. annoying. but that's the way it is. so anywho i get this reasonable looking instant message from a friend of mine. and i follow the link. it goes to a yahoo address. and there's that oh so familiar login prompt. it looks just like the real thing. so on we go. see my friend had been talking about his hot new girlfriend. and she's not nice. which is why he likes her. so when the link takes me to a random chick slutting herself it seems completely reasonable. later my account gets logged off. and i find out he didn't send the message. oops. time to change my password. thinking back. i noticed "his" message used capital letters oddly. and the url for the login page was different than normal. it was still on yahoo. i have made two errors. heh. well fortunately, there's nothing of real value there. and that password was only used there. so yahoo in an effort to make me less vulnerable actually made me more vulnerable. neat, huh?