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419 Scammers Take Advantage of the Facebook IPO

May

2012

Today sees the highly-anticipated IPO (Initial Public Offering) of the social-networking site Facebook. The IPO is expected to be several times oversubscribed as the demand for shares greatly exceeds the number of shares being issued. The high-profile nature of this IPO has not escaped the attention of the “419” or the “advance fee fraud” scammers. […]

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Webmail Security and Associated Best Practices

Mar

2012

Webmail is popular for its many advantages over regular desktop email. One of its salient benefits is ubiquitous availability, which is a double-edged sword. The price paid for universal access is a greatly increased attack surface area. Below we will identify existing threats, the implications of being targeted, and best practices to effectively mitigate threats […]

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Spammers Take Advantage of Unicode Normalization to Hide URLs

Aug

2011

by Francisco Pardo and Nick Johnston Spammers are never idle when it comes to finding new ways to bypass mail filters—after all, this is crucial to a spammer's success. Recently, we've seen a low but steady number of spam messages in which spammers are replacing certain characters in URLs (which point to spam sites) with […]

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