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Author Archives: Jovi Umawing

About Jovi Umawing

Jovi Umawing is Communications and Research Analyst at GFI Software. With 10 years in the antivirus industry under her belt, this decorated technical documenter has written research papers, whitepapers, and various threat reports geared towards enterprise and consumer clients. Jovi has also written for eSecurity Planet and is now a regular contributor to the GFI Labs Blog.

Spammers Hone In on Google+

Spammers Hone In on Google+

on July 2, 2011

Our friends at Sophos has found what we consider as, probably, the first crime ever targeting Google+: fake pharma spam. Due to the high demand of G+ invites being thrown at Google, to the point that the company actually had to …

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Earth Hour Section of WWF’s Philippine Site Defaced

Earth Hour Section of WWF’s Philippine Site Defaced

on June 29, 2011

WWF Philippines’ site is hacked by some Madoka (it’s an anime) fan. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. The above was the actual tweet from a chain of retweets that reached my stream and got us (Chris and …

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FakeRean Comes of Age, Turns Hard-core

FakeRean Comes of Age, Turns Hard-core

on June 6, 2011

Avid readers of this blog can attest that we’ve been writing about FakeRean for, oh, quite a number of months now. In case you missed out on those posts or you no longer remember them, I have for you here …

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To Know or Not to Know: That is the Facebook Question

To Know or Not to Know: That is the Facebook Question

on May 19, 2011

No matter how fun and interesting (not to mention newsworthy) Facebook is, the said social networking site has indeed become a haven to a motley of threats, from scams, to nasty apps, to phishing pages. Users who spent much of their …

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You Fumbld Your Tumbl

You Fumbld Your Tumbl

on May 16, 2011

Ah, Tumblr. It calls itself a microblogging site but it’s not exactly like Twitter, nor is it a Facebook or a YouTube. It does a little bit of all three, actually, and for many Tumblr is in a league of …

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