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Feminists just wanna have fun (and send spam)

25

Jul

2011

As a feminist who sees an above-average amount of spam (due to many years in the Internet security space), the spam sample below caught my eye and elicited a chuckle. It’s dating spam with sense of humor: the spammer sent a “looking for sex on the side” spam message with a spoofed from address using […]

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A Look Inside Targeted Email Attacks

15

Jul

2011

The number of targeted attacks has increased dramatically in recent years. Major companies, government agencies, and political organizations alike have reported being the target of attacks. The rule of the thumb is, the more sensitive the information that an organization handles, the higher the possibility of becoming a victim of such an attack. Here, we’ll […]

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Inside a Back Door Attack

29

Jun

2011

A colleague of mine recently wrote about one of the June “Microsoft Tuesday” vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild. Because we're a bit like that, we decided to allow the exploit to compromise one of our honeypot computers so we could observe what happened. The exploit first came to our attention by way of email […]

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