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Lady Gaga’s Twitter account tweeting links to survey scam

20

Dec

2011

The Twitter account of famous singer Lady Gaga has apparently been hacked. It's being used by attackers to lure her more than 17 million followers to click on a link: After a number of redirects, the link ultimately leads to a survey scam that is designed to harvest personal information: The first link uses the URL shortener bit.ly, […]

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Adobe Reader and Acrobat Vulnerability (CVE-2011-2462)

08

Dec

2011

Yesterday, Adobe released a Security Advisory warning about a vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Adobe rated this vulnerability “critical,” because it may allow an attacker to execute code remotely and take control of an affected system. Adobe is currently working on a fix and planning to roll that fix out next week for the 9.x versions of its […]

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