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Java Considered Harmful

22

Dec

2011

Do you need Java in your web browser? Seriously, do you? If not, get rid of it. Turns out, most users don’t need Java any more, yet people keep running it. Do not confuse Java with JavaScript: it’s hard to use the web without JavaScript. But JavaScript has nothing to do with Java. The risks […]

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FBI acknowledges more SCADA attacks, increases cyber budget

13

Dec

2011

At a recent security conference Michael Welch, the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Cyber Division, gave a speech where he discussed the issue of SCADA security. Information Age magazine reported on his speech and quoted Welch as saying: “We just had a circumstance where we had three cities, one of them a major city […]

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FakeAV online scanner scam still in the wild – Let’s have a look at the possible evolution of some famous FakeAV scanner scams

07

Dec

2011

The FakeAV business faced a decrease in the last few months. Due to federal law enforcement activities against the FakeAV industry and some major search engine optimizations to prevent blackhat seo poisoning, less infections of FakeAV programs were reported in the last five months. Despite those measures, FakeAV is still a serious threat to everyone […]

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