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IRS Summer Tax forum – the things they don’t teach you

18

Jul

2011

Lesson one: The IRS is a confirmed favorite of spammers, phishers and malware distributors. As an example consider the attacks from the last few weeks that have targeted users of the IRS’s electronic payment portal. This time the attack starts with an email about tax forums to train and serve the tax practitioner community. The […]

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Facebook Finally Blocks Malware Attack

02

Jun

2011

With more than 24 hours having passed since it began, Facebook has finally blocked a malware attack that linked to Windows and Mac malware. The attack site pushed MacGuard scareware at Mac users, and host modifying fake “Adobe Flash Players” at Windows users. Contrary to our earlier post, rather than using the “Like” feature, we […]

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Microsoft study asserts social engineering more common than exploitation

20

May

2011

Earlier this week Microsoft posted a blog entry showing statistics from their SmartScreen technology built into Internet Explorer (IE) 7, 8 and 9. Their conclusions? One in every 14 downloads is malicious (of the malicious files that Microsoft is aware of) and this represents between two and five million malware attacks per day against IE […]

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