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Beware of a new Windows security vulnerability (MS12-024)

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Apr

2012

As a part of the April’s “Patch Tuesday”, Microsoft released a fix for the MS12-024 / CVE-2012-0151 vulnerability. This issue was discovered and researched by us; we have been in contact with Microsoft engineers for the past few months to fix this problem. The aim of this blog post is to explain the problem, the […]

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Flash-Based Fake Antivirus Software: Windows Risk Minimizer

23

Mar

2012

Fake antivirus software or "scareware" is nothing new, but these applications continue to get more sophisticated. We recently discovered a relatively new fake antivirus application called Windows Risk Minimizer. The fake antivirus software was promoted through spam sent from a popular webmail service. This is slightly unusual as normally fake antivirus infections arrive through drive-by […]

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Denard Robinson’s Twitter Gets Hacked: The Importance of Security in Social Media

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Nov

2011

Privacy and security issues in social media are obviously a huge concern to many of the people who use these types of sites. Most of the people who actually show their personal information don’t understand the consequences they could face, and the others probably don’t care. It is more important now than ever before to […]

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