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Mac OS X Trojan hides behind malicious PDF disguise

23

Sep

2011

A fascinating new example of Mac malware has been discovered, that appears to be adopting an old Windows-style disguise to fool users into running it. Despite the numerous times that cybercriminals have created boobytrapped PDF files that exploit vulnerabilities to infect unsuspecting users, many people still think that PDF files are somehow magically safer to […]

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Lady Gaga is still not dead – stop falling for Facebook scams

19

Sep

2011

This weekend we saw another spate of Facebook messages claiming to link to a BBC News report of the death of Lady Gaga. Of course, the claims are untrue – and Lady Gaga is still alive. But that isn’t stopping Facebook scammers from creating money-making websites that claim that the eccentric pop star has been […]

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Fraudulent Google.com Certificate Causes Worries

30

Aug

2011

A Dutch certificate authority, DigiNotar, has issued a fraudulent SSL certificate for google.com, which may lead to people attempting to use Google services being compromised. According to H Security, “The certificate was issued on 10 July to unknown persons in Iran.”The Electronic Frontier Foundation even states that this has led to man-in-the-middle attacks that may […]

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