Malware Poses as Rainmeter Skins on deviantART
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May 16, 2012
Recently I decided to improve my desktop with a little interactivity, and started dabbling with something called Rainmeter which displays customisable and functional skins in a variety of designs. There are entire websites where people can show off their design …
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Tumblr? Tublr.
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April 13, 2012
Back in November, we highlighted a Tumblr typo site leading to iPad offers. That URL was Tumbr(dot)com – a similar situation seems to be playing out in Tumblr land so this time we’re looking at Tublr(dot)com. Should users mistakenly type …
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The Enterprise Mobility Architecture According to the NSA
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April 2, 2012
The National Security Agency (NSA) recently established the NSA Mobility Program to focus on delivering secure mobile capability using commercial technologies to the United States Government (USG) and the Department of Defense (DOD). In February, the NSA released a 101-page document …
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Pinterest VISA Giftcard Spamrun on Twitter
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April 2, 2012
Avid users of Pinterest should be aware that a large spamrun involving the Twitter account “Pinterestdep” is underway right now, asking users to visit the Twitter page and associated URL. Here’s one spam example in case the Twitter staff nuke …
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Facebook Profile Viewer Shenanigans
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April 2, 2012
Beautiful word, “shenanigans”. It seems we just can’t get enough of profile trackers / stalkers / watchers, and this was bouncing around over the weekend in the form of “Profile Viewers” posted to Facebook walls: Click to Enlarge Visiting the …
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Sex Appeal Meter Scam and Execution Hoax Abound on Facebook
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March 29, 2012
There’s not a day when we don’t see a new scam or hoax—yes, even the old ones—being proliferated on Facebook. I’ve seen both today. Let’s take a quick look at each one, shall we? First off, the scam: click to …
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Mass Effect 3 Ending Controversy Fuels Scams
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March 22, 2012
One of the most fascinating blow-outs I’ve seen in recent weeks is the furore over the ending to massively popular videogame franchise Mass Effect 3. The short version is: 1) Game developers make lots of promises in relation to how …
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The 2012 Cyber Defence University Challenge
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March 20, 2012
Our security minded Undergraduate readers in Australia may wish to know that free tickets to Black Hat 2012 are up for grabs, should you enter the 2012 Cyber Defence University Challenge. It involves a 24 hour challenge on the 3rd …
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Criminals Behind Rogue AV Leverage on Google
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March 19, 2012
Certain compromised pages, which are search engine optimized, are found in the wild and accessible via popular search engines like Google and Bing. There pages were found to direct the user to a site where a faux scan is performed on the …
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Fake Linkedin Mails Lead To Cridex
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March 16, 2012
Be advised that there are fake Linkedin invitation reminders in circulation sending users to a BlackHole exploit which attempts to drop Cridex onto the PC. Cridex is a rather nasty piece of work that does everything from target banks and …
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Online Criminals Bank on Skype Vouchers to Spread Exploit
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March 15, 2012
Senior Malware Analyst James Dee found a fake domain that claimed it has anything to do with Skype vouchers. This voucher, which is a form of Skype Credit, has been around for quite some time so it already has an …
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