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“Social” malware ready for the Olympic Games 2012

20

Jul

2012

The Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games is exactly 1 week away and Websense Security Labs researchers are already seeing data-stealing malware that aims to capitalize on the Games. Malware piggybacks on the buzz surrounding current, high profile events like the Olympics in order to steal personal data. Olympics-themed content armed with malware is introduced mainly through social engineering-based […]

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Phishing for Security

15

Apr

2012

Social Engineering plays an extremely significant role in the success of phishing attacks. As more and more users become aware of the problem fraudsters need to find more creative ways of convincing users to surrender personal information to fraudulent websites. It seems that most fraudsters have come to the conclusion that messages crafted to address […]

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Facebook Spammers Use Amazon’s Cloud

26

Jan

2012

Facebook is recently doing a decent job at keeping survey spam posts at bay (all things considered). So, what’s an entrepreneurial Facebook spammer to do? Well, some have tweaked their master plan, and have expanded their use of “cloud” services. Using Amazon’s S3 file hosting service solves quite a few problems for these perpetrators. Number […]

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