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How to Protect your Personal Data from Facebook Applications your Friends Use

03

Apr

2012

Many Facebook users have an aversion to third party Facebook applications and rightly so. The platform is riddled with rogue apps that are used to spread spam, scams and malware. Also, it is a huge privacy risk to give unknown application developers access to your private Facebook data.You might be surprised to know that applications […]

Category General Written by Facecroocks 0 Comments

Security 101: Attack Vectors Take Advantage of User Interaction

09

Feb

2012

Welcome back to Security 101. Our New Year’s recess is over, and it’s time to offer another lesson. So far we have discussed vulnerabilities and some types of low-interaction attack vectors. In this lesson we shall continue with attack vectors that require medium or high levels of user interaction to succeed.These attack vectors are more […]

Category General Written by Blog Central > McAfee Labs 0 Comments

Fake missing plugin warnings used for spam/spyware

26

Jan

2012

A key element for a successful spam/malicious page is to establish trust with the visitor so that he will perform the requested actions. Users trust their browser, but not necessarily the content (i.e. web page) that it displays. A trick that I’ve blogged about earlier, is to fool the user into thinking that certain elements […]

Category Security Written by Zscaler Research 0 Comments

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