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Gift card mania: Fake Starbucks gift cards spreading on Facebook can lead to malware – More and more scamsters misuse popular brands to lure users to visit their websites

23

Feb

2012

The fake campaign is spreading via Facebook walls around the globe. The texts used in the announcements are English, which increases the chance that a large number of Facebook users accept the “bait message”. Starbucks has been used in a similar campaign already last year and they warned their customers not to believe such a […]

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New Year’s Wishes – with side order of data harvesting

29

Dec

2011

It’s almost end 2011. What with Christmas recently passed, and New Year coming up, there’s naturally a lot of well wishes and holiday greetings being messaged around. Looks like someone’s decided to join in (a little late) – and also do a bit of data harvesting at the same time. Spyware:Android/AdBoo.A appears to be one […]

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There’s more than one way to skin an orange.

22

Oct

2011

?When it comes to attacking a system, and compromising its data and/or resources, there are several different methods that an attacker can choose. One of the more effective ways to make a successful compromise is to take advantage of perceived vulnerabilities in the targeted system. A vulnerability refers to a characteristic of a system that […]

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