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A spider under the skin? It’s a Facebook survey scam

12

Jul

2011

Everyone knows that a fear of spiders is arachnophobia. Maybe it’s time that we had an official word for a dislike of Facebook survey scams too? There are certainly plenty of people over on the Naked Security page on Facebook who are fed to the back teeth with the scams that spread virally across the […]

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Notes on internal MacOS anti-malware tool (aka XProtect)

02

Jul

2011

On August 28, 2009, Apple released Snow Leopard. One of new functions added to this version is basic anti-malware tool called “XProtect”. The name is based on the name of one .plist file which contains strings that are necessary for detection. Apple had not provided a name for the tool, so developers made it. Latest […]

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Fake Firefox warnings lead to scareware

31

May

2011

Purveyors of fake security software don’t let much grass grow under their feet and continually make improvements to their social engineering lures. While most of the talk for the past month has been their move to Mac with fake Finder pop-ups that appear to scan your computer, they haven’t stopped innovating on Windows either. Their […]

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