The Prince George’s County public safety departments will be hosting their annual holiday food drive this Saturday December 3rd from 9 am to 12 pm; and Monday through Thursday December 5th through the 8th from 9 am to 3 pm. Folks are asked to come by the Bunker Hill Fire Station and drop off non perishable food items to benefit needy families here in Mount Rainier and across Prince George’s County. For more information please contact Captain Jimmy Stoots here at the police station at 301-985-6580 or by email at jstoots@mountrainierpd.org.
There is a new spam campaign in circulation using the Boston Marathon bombings that occurred on April 15, 2013 as a lure. Users are sent an e-mail encouraging them to a watch a video of the explosion. When the user clicks on the enclosed link to watch the video malware is installed on the user’s computer. The following URL patterns have been found in these e-mails: http://[IP-address]/boston.html http://[IP-address]/news.html When the user clicks on one of the links the Kehlios worm is installed on the user’s system which has the capacity to send spam; carry out Distributed Denial of Service Attacks; and steal online currency such as bitcoins. Most major anti-virus vendors have signatures for detecting this malware so users should keep their antivirus programs up-to-date. In addition to the Boston Marathon spam campaign, a West, Texas plant explosion spam campaign has also sprung up. This spam campaign uses similar exploitation techniques as the Boston Marathon spam campaign p
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