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Last week I described how Chrome and Firefox are protecting users against vulnerable plugins, Flash and Java amongst them, with Click to Play. Microsoft has a different approach with Windows 8 when it comes to protecting users against attack using the Flash plugin. Embedded Flash Player Windows 8 ships with its own version of Flash. […]

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In response to recent reports that malicious apps may have made their way into the official Android Market, Google has responded by announcing a new program to more proactively scan the Market and developer accounts for seemingly malicious apps and highlights and/or remove them before users experience trouble. Traditionally, the barriers of entry for developers […]

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Sep
2011

In addition to an interesting malware attack, last week’s spam honeypots prompted this post on something new I’ve been seeing in some phishing attacks: rather than just drop a phishing page onto a hacked site, the Bad Guys drop a self-contained form-generating kit, and use that to generate the page. Here’s what the phishy e-mail […]

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