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Whatever Happened to Facebook Likejacking?

11

Sep

2013

Back in 2010, Facebook likejacking (a social engineering technique of tricking people into posting a Facebook status update) was a trending problem. So, whatever happened to likejacking scams and spam? Well, Facebook beefed-up its security — and the trend significantly declined, at least when compared to peak 2010 numbers. But you can’t keep a good […]

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Joulupata action

14

Dec

2012

It’s Christmas time! Time for charity! In Finland, the most popular Christmas charity is run by the local salvation army. Their campaign is called Joulupata. And as you might expect, they have a website at www.joulupata.fi. Earlier today, if you googled for ‘joulupata’, the first search result looked unusual: Looks dangerous. So let’s visit the […]

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Countdown to March 8th

06

Mar

2012

This is the week! (No… that’s not an “iPad 3” reference.) Back in November, the F.B.I. shutdown servers belonging to the DNSChanger botnet, operated by Rove Digital, which was based in Estonia. The Feds have been running substitute DNS servers since then, but their authority to do so expires on March 8, 2012. And that […]

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