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Increase in Pump and Dump Stock Spam

15

May

2013

In the last few weeks we have observed a drastic increase in “penny stock” spam emails. In 2011 Symantec published a blog entitled Global Debt Crises News Drives Pump-and-Dump Stock Scams, which also dealt with this type of spam.Penny stocks, also known as cent stocks, are shares in small companies that trade at low prices, […]

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How to protect yourself from Java-based malware

26

Jul

2012

The last few months we have seen a drastic increase in Java-based malware abusing the CVE-2012-0507 AtomicReferenceArray type-confusion vulnerability. In addition to that, a few weeks ago, a new Java vulnerability was found (CVE-2012-1723); it is also a type-confusion vulnerability. The attack abusing this new vulnerability is also very active. Traditionally, Java has a strong […]

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Doctor Who Finale Scam Bandwagon Extravaganza of Doom

02

Jun

2011

The mid-series finale for Doctor Who (“A good man goes to war”, fact fans) is rapidly approaching, and big plot twists means lots of sites trying to take advantage of early spoilers. Oh, and making some spare change at your expense too. Behold the wonders of Youtube: Click to Enlarge If I were a betting […]

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