A recent spam run that tries to distribute malicious software disguised as a DHL package tracking number contains a poorly hidden message that insults the Security Fix author by name. According to an analysis by security firm Sophos, the messages arrive as a “Dear Customer” notification stating that the courier company was unable to deliver a parcel to the recipient’s address. The message urges recipients to click the attached “shipping label” for more information, and of course the attachment is a malicious program designed to steal the curious victim’s passwords. Sophos said the tracking number cited in the messages appears to be a jumbled mush of letters, but closer inspection reveals an insult aimed at this author. (Suffice it to say, it is off-color enough that it cannot be repeated here.) Sophos’s Graham Cluely writes: “I find it hard to believe that the hackers’ choice of tracking reference number
