Sunday, August 21st, 2011
Launching a new Web app today comes with a few certainties, and one of them is, “I will be a target for hackers” for sure. So when an app as large and as high profile as Google+ launches, it will surely be one of the top targets for malicious activity. ...
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Security company Damballa has revealed that the source code for SpyEye, one of the most dangerous banking Trojans around, has been leaked online. Which is good for researchers, as they can better understand how it works. But it also means that a malware kit which used to cost more than ...
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Facebook today released the Guide to Facebook Security, a free handbook aiming to educate parents, teachers, and young adults on how to keep their Facebook accounts safe. You can download it now from the Facebook Safety Center.
The 20-page guide was written by former Symantec internet safety expert Linda McCarthy, Purdue ...
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
Several days ago, one of our customers submitted a sample (SHA1: fbe71968d4c5399c2906b56d9feadf19a35beb97, detected as TrojanDropper:Win32/Vundo.L). This trojan hijacks the hosts “vk.com” and “vkontakte.ru” (both social networking sites in Russia)and redirects them to 92.38.209.252, but achieves this in an unusual way.Source:https://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2011/08/10/can-we-believe-our-eyes.aspx
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Apparently, LinkedIn has recently done us the “favor” of having a default setting whereby our names and photos can be used for third-party advertising. A friend forwarded me this alert (from a friend, from a friend…) this morning.
Devious. And I expect that you, like me, don’t want to participate.
Source:
http://brandimpact.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/a-box-you-want-to-uncheck-on-linkedin/
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