Posts Tagged ‘mobile number’

Who is already an Olympic Games 2012 winner?

Mar

2012

As announced by our Security Predictions for 2012, the imminent start of the Olympic Games 2012 is a good worldwide event for phishing authors as well as malicious bots. They will most likely begin utilizing this vector to spread their attempts at masquerading as legitimate sites, organizations, or services to trick users into divulging information. Websense® Security LabsTM and […]

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Facebook Valentine’s Theme Leads to Malware

Jan

2012

It’s never too early to get ready for Valentine’s day, it seems, even when it comes to malicious attacks. Recently, I came across a scam in Facebook that leverages the upcoming occasion.The said attack begins with a post on affected users’ wall inviting other users to install a Valentine’s theme into their Facebook profile.Once users […]

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Is your smartphone telling every website you visit your telephone number?

Jan

2012

O2 mobile users in the UK are venting on Twitter today, fuming at their discovery that their phone number is being shared with every website that they visit over the network. I found a colleague who owns an iPhone on the O2 network, and we tried it out for ourselves. Making sure we turned off […]

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