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BET VIP Concert Ticket Scam Spreading on Twitter

19
Jul
2013

This weekend one of my favorite bands won free concert tickets on Twitter. They tweeted about the message they received from another Twitter user. Figure 1. Sarcastic tweet about free concert tickets This type of scam looked familiar from a security standpoint. Upon further investigation, we at Symantec Security Response confirmed these suspicions. Figure 2. Spam account replies […]

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A Brave New World, IPv6 Day

08
Jun
2011

June 8th marks World IPv6 Day when a number of major organizations offer internet services using the replacement Internet Protocol version 6 standard. From a security standpoint IPv6 raises some new and potentially interesting problems for malware authors, anti-virus companies, and system/network administrators. All non-network centric aspects of malicious code will be unaffected by the […]

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