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Arabic Facebook likejacking

28

Dec

2011

Sometimes Facebook attacks are quite easy to find – like when an American friend posts in Arabic. The text:???? ???? ???? ???? ??????? ????? ???? ????????translates to: “An embarrassing situation during the live broadcast TV sports broadcaster”Clicking on the link leads to a Web page with an embedded video player. Clicking pretty much anywhere on […]

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Should you be careful when opening a .doc file from an email?

30

Sep

2011

Spreading malware via email has always been so effective, that it is still widely used by bad guys. As you may know, there were times when email worms like MyDoom, Brontok, etc. infected millions of computers worldwide. Nevertheless, due to efforts of security agencies and antivirus vendors to warn users, the attachment of virus onto […]

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“exe” read backwards spells “malware”

18

Aug

2011

RIGHT TO LEFT OVERRIDE (RLO) is a unicode control character (U+202E) that reverses the character reading order from the traditional left-to-right, to right-to-left. This is mainly used for right-to-left languages (such as Arabic or Hebrew). We reported this trick last year but it has resurfaced extensively in the past week to trick users into opening […]

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