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The Facebook “Gold” Membership Hoax

23

Feb

2013

It seems that a new viral hoax sweeps Facebook every week or so. They always sound vaguely plausible, at least upon first glance and without a close inspection. The latest in this line of semi-believable hoaxes is the Facebook “Gold” membership hoax. The bogus message reads:“It’s official. Communication media. FACEBOOK has just published its price. […]

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Malware: Dollar Equals Tilde Square Brackets

14

Feb

2013

Recently we encountered a very suspicious piece of code on some Joomla-powered webpages. The code looks as if garbled and without any special meaning, and starts like this:Upon closer observation, several strange things are to be noted. First, there are no alphanumerical symbols to be seen in any part of the code. Second, on the […]

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The strange case of the inte1sat domain name

20

Nov

2012

Thanks to the Websense® ThreatSeekerTM Network, Websense Security Labs recently detected an unusual domain name that we have analyzed. The domain name, "inte1sat", substitutes the number "1" for the lower case letter "l", an example of "leet" substitution that surfaced in the 1980s and is still used today. (Leet is a method of constructing words […]

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