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Apple of discord

20

Jun

2013

As Apple’s popularity grows, so does the desire among fraudsters to make money from the people who own the company’s devices. The cybercriminals are aiming to steal Apple ID data which provides access to users’ personal information stored in iCloud (e.g., photographs, contacts, documents, email, etc.) as well as to the purchases made in the […]

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Phishers vs. customers of Russian hosting providers, new attacks on social networkers, and other virus events of October 2011

02

Nov

2011

October 2011 was marked by the increased activity of cyber fraudsters employing phishing and other social-engineering tricks in their schemes. Criminals targeted social network users and customers of Russian hosting providers. Other important events include the discovery of a new backdoor program that enabled intruders to control infected computers remotely.VKontakte users under attackFraudsters are adapting […]

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The 10 most insecure passcodes

16

Jun

2011

Earlier this week I read an extremely interesting and impressing blog item by Daniel Amitay: Most Common iPhone Passcodes. Amitay has analyzed more than 200 000 passcodes used in an app with a similar passcode setup screen to iPhone. His findings are astonishing and scary. Let me go through some of his findings. Keep in […]

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