Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Alert: Mac Genius': "The password for your Apple ID has been successfully reset"



I adore my Mac colleagues, most of all for their idealism and immense pride in seeing Mac stock jump to the highest market capitalization ever.  Just how much more acknowledgment do you need to confirm you are a genius? 

Even those with a Einstein level IQ can be fooled.  Here's a good one for you:

What comes to you Inbox, knows your personalized e-mail address, and has already protected you from fraudulent activity on your account.  Apple of course....

Uhhhh, not.....

But, hey if your credit card company quickly alerts you to a fraudster, Apple is primed to, too. Right?  
Not so fast cowboy.  Even if the skies are not cloudy all day, think about it.  Why not pull the trigger and click?  You may have been targeted by very clever phisher for presumably the most important detail of your system, your Apple ID.

Here's the header regarding the subject line: "password for your Apple ID  has been successfully reset".  (Note: I have disguised my info for obvious reasons.) 

Return-path:
Envelope-to: vm****@*****t
Delivery-date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:05:25 -0400
Received: from impinc01.yourhosting****nt.com ([10.1.**.101] helo=impinc01.yourhosting****nt.com)
    by mailscan10.yourhosting****nt.com with esmtp (Exim)
    id 1T4EMu-0005fm-Q0
    for vm****l@*****.com; Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:05:24 -0400
Received: from ltv.pl.159.230.91.in-addr.arpa ([91.230.159.76])
    by impinc01.yourhosting****nt.com with NO UCE
    id pt5M1j06q1fBcZX02t5M76; Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:05:22 -0400
X-EN-OrigIP: 91.230.159.76
X-EN-IMPSID: pt5M1j06q1fBcZX02t5M76
Received: from  (192.168.1.143) by id.apple.com (91.230.159.124) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.0.685.24; Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:05:20 +0100
Message-ID: <50350900 .202090=".202090" id.apple.com="id.apple.com">
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:05:20 +0100
From: "Apple"
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101103 Thunderbird/3.1.6
MIME-Version: 1.0
To:
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
 boundary="------------08010700703020309060203"
Subject: [Norton AntiSpam]Your Apple ID password has been reset
X-Bl-Tracker: AAAABBfMaf8XCVhYG7N+3BuzesE=


To learn more, click on the image to view a screen shot of today's e-mail - Don't worry, the view is disinfected.  The malicious sites have been highlighted.  Just don't even think about going to those sites.  Otherwise you might pick up any kind of malware, a key logger would be worst case scenario, to stealthy attack your system. 

Look at a screen shot of the email
Subject "password for your Apple ID  has been successfully reset"







And get used to it big boys and girls, now that Apple has achieved capitalistic immortality it's become a target for all of the wanna-be hackers looking for a quick hit and run.

Now go out an buy some Apple stock and make me w wealthy woman.  Just kidding....  Perhaps Google might be a better play....

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