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Facebook shutters its unpopular @facebook.com email service

Feb

2014

After three years, Facebook is killing its @facebook.com email service. When it launched in late 2010, Zuckerberg and Co. touted the systems basic approach to messaging (think: no attachment or CC/BCC features). However, in a statement given to The Verge, the outfit confirmed that barely anyone was using the service. If you did use it, […]

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Compromised Sites Conceal StealRat Botnet Operations

Jul

2013

Advances in spam detection meant that spam operators had to find ways to circumvent new technologies. For instance, Asprox made significant improvements in their spam and module architecture whereas Pushdo made use of decoy network traffic.Recently, we have discovered a new simple method used by a spam botnet we named StealRat. It consists of 3 […]

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Phishing in French Features Teenage Celebrities

Aug

2012

Celebrities are frequently featured in phishing sites. Now, phishers have taken an interest in targeting French users by using teenage celebrities as bait. Some of the celebrities recently used as bait were the singers Jojo, Justin Bieber, and Zac Efron. The phishing sites were hosted on free Web hosting sites.In the first example, the phishing […]

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