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BBC Sport in Rugby World Cup Twitter spam slip-up

19

Sep

2011

A compromised Twitter account has resulted in the embarrassing broadcast of a spam message via the BBC’s website. More and more TV stations are encouraging both their staff and their viewers to jump onboard the social media bandwagon, and use the likes of Twitter to interact and keep up-to-date with the latest developments. But if […]

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New spam sources in the making

13

Sep

2011

After the Pushdo/Cutwail, Bredolab and Rustock botnets were taken offline, the geography of spam sources underwent some major changes. In particular, from September 2010 the US, for a long time the leading spam distributor, began to lose ground. For several months now it hasn’t even made it into the Top 10 leading sources of spam […]

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The Philippine Bureau of Immigration is Compromised

09

Aug

2011

Websense Security Labs™ and the Websense ThreatSeeker® Network have detected malicious emails disguised as HSBC Notifications. A closer look at these emails, like the one you can see below, reveals that the link provided in the emails is a compromised URL belonging to the Philippine Bureau of Immigration. Clicking the link prompts the user to […]

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