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USB Autorun malware on the wane

15

Jun

2011

Here’s some good news in the ongoing fight against Windows-based malware – it appears that there has been a significant drop in the number of computers being infected by malware which exploits the Windows Autorun feature. Autorun is the technology which makes a program start automatically when you insert a CD or USB stick into […]

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Plankton malware drifts into Android Market

14

Jun

2011

The rate at which we discover new malware samples for the Android platform is increasing. At the beginning of the year we got a few samples every month and today it is not uncommon to get a few every week. While most of the newly discovered samples are released outside of the official Android Market, […]

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Facebook changes privacy settings for millions of users – facial recognition is enabled

07

Jun

2011

When Facebook revealed last year it was introducing facial recognition technology to help users tag their friends in photographs, they gave the functionality to North American users only. Most of the rest of us found the option in our privacy settings was “not yet available”, which meant we could neither enable or disable it. We […]

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