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Check your Twitter account for rogue applications

30

Mar

2012

If you’re careless about what applications you allow to access your Twitter account, don’t be surprised if you find the bad guys are spamming tweets out in your name without your permission.Here’s just a small sample of the messages we saw earlier today, claiming to link to free iPhone 4 offers or tools to help […]

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Google Chrome hack earns security researcher $60,000

08

Mar

2012

A Russian security researcher has earned himself a tidy $60,000 by demonstrating how he could waltz past the security sandbox in Google’s Chrome browser to run unauthorised code on fully-patched Windows 7 computers. Sergey Glazunov uncovered a remote code execution vulnerability in Chrome, that could be used by malicious hackers and cybercriminals to install and […]

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Malware: ‘Scan from a HP OfficeJet’ attack spammed out widely

23

Feb

2012

SophosLabs is intercepting a widespread criminal campaign to infect innocent users’ computers. The attack has been spammed out widely, pretending to be an email containing a scan from an HP OfficeJet printer. The precise wording used in the dangerous emails’ subject lines, message body and attachment names can vary – but here are some examples: […]

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