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Facebook Valentine’s Theme Leads to Malware

30

Jan

2012

It’s never too early to get ready for Valentine’s day, it seems, even when it comes to malicious attacks. Recently, I came across a scam in Facebook that leverages the upcoming occasion.The said attack begins with a post on affected users’ wall inviting other users to install a Valentine’s theme into their Facebook profile.Once users […]

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About Microsoft’s IE9 Malware Blocking Results

26

May

2011

Yesterday, I read an article that reported how our counterparts at Sophos “slammed Microsoft” over its reported malware blocking stats for SmartScreenR Application Reputation built-in Internet Explorer (IE) 7, 8, and 9. This issue was much too interesting for me to not follow up with my own thoughts. Having also read the Microsoft blog article […]

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Microsoft study asserts social engineering more common than exploitation

20

May

2011

Earlier this week Microsoft posted a blog entry showing statistics from their SmartScreen technology built into Internet Explorer (IE) 7, 8 and 9. Their conclusions? One in every 14 downloads is malicious (of the malicious files that Microsoft is aware of) and this represents between two and five million malware attacks per day against IE […]

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