Monday, January 5th, 2009 Days after a wave of phishing attacks fooled thousands of Twitter users, it appears that another security hole has been found by...someone. Obama's account, unused since election day, sent out an affiliate link to a survey with a gas card prize, Fox News said that "Bill O'Reily is gay" (not ...
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Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 There's a scam spreading through Twitter. Direct messages (DMs) are showing up in Twitter accounts with appealing come-ons to visit a site on blogspot.com. The text is, "hey! check out this funny blog about you..." The URL in the message then redirects to a page that looks like the Twitter ...
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Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 DaiMon has once more discovered a new critical cross-site scripting vulnerability which affects the Facebook "Reset Password" page. Malicious users can inject code to phish credentials and other sensitive personal information from millions of Facebook members.We hope that this serious flaw gets fixed quickly as is usually the case with ...
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 With the help of about 200 Sony Playstations, an international team of security researchers have devised a way to undermine the algorithms used to protect secure Web sites and launch a nearly undetectable phishing attack.To do this, they've exploited a bug in the digital certificates used by Web sites to ...
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Monday, December 29th, 2008 In his blog, Graham Cluley of Sophos alerts his readers to the return of Google Calendar phishing attacks. Originally spotted in the summer, Google Calendar phishing uses event invitations to Calendar users asking them to "Verify Your Account" or face account deletion. Victims of this phish are asked to accept ...
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