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Buyers beware-of Olympic scams

02

Feb

2012

Shady ticket deals for the 2012 London Olympics? Hardly surprising. But when the source is Google’s famous AdWords advertising service–one of the internet giant’s main sources of income–then a double take might be in order.A BBC investigation found that a Google search for “olympic tickets” resulted in top-of-the-page placement of sponsored sites for vendors selling […]

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From color pink to infectious binary

13

Jan

2012

My daughter should be credited (or blamed) with the Cute, Pink, and Infected release.She was playing games on my computer and suddenly screamed: “The internet has stopped!”Yes indeed, the browser had shut down on her. All I knew at the time was that this involved some online games and a google search using the word […]

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January ’12 MSRT: Win32/Sefnit

11

Jan

2012

The January 2012 edition of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) includes detection and removal of the Win32/Sefnit family of trojans. This trojan family moderates and redirects web browser search engine results for Bing, Yahoo! and Google. The earliest reported variant in this family can be traced back to August 2010. The installation mechanism […]

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