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RIM recalls 1,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets

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May

2011

BlackBerry creator Research In Motion (RIM) has issued a recall for between 900 and 1,000 PlayBook tablets which were shipped with a faulty version of the device’s operating system. When users boot up one of the defective devices, they are unable to proceed past the user agreement, effectively turning the new handheld into an expensive […]

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Facebook’s Search and Destroy

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May

2011

An article came out yesterday from Clement Genzmer who is a security engineer at Facebook. His tagline is "searching and destroying malicious links". Those of us in the business of digital security and safety can certainly identify with that, especially the part where we aim to identify the criminals and work with law enforcement to […]

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Fake-Alert Scams Growing Again

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May

2011

Fake-alert Trojans, also known as scareware, fool consumers by claiming imaginary threats, and insisting its victims purchase a product to repair the “infected” systems. They exist in Windows and Macintosh environments. In my recent report explaining this threat, I included a table showing the approximate number of scareware products with their known release dates: After […]

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