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Bogus Pinterest Pins Lead to Survey Scams

May

2012

The continuing increase in visitors to the Pinterest site may be a primary cause why it’s becoming a hit for cybercriminals’ scams and schemes. In March, we spotted scammers using popular brands to lure users into “pinning” fake posts that led to surveys scams. This new wave of survey scams I found came from my […]

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2011 in Review: Exploits and Vulnerabilities

Jan

2012

In recent years, we have seen client-side software heavily targeted by hackers in search of vulnerabilities. 2011 saw these threats become more complex and sophisticated. We saw attackers increasingly use zero-day vulnerabilities, some of which have been particularly critical. Examples of these include the vulnerability Duqu exploited (CVE-2011-3402); a Java vulnerability (CVE-2011-3544); or Adobe zero-day vulnerabilities, which […]

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Facebook changes privacy settings for millions of users – facial recognition is enabled

Jun

2011

When Facebook revealed last year it was introducing facial recognition technology to help users tag their friends in photographs, they gave the functionality to North American users only. Most of the rest of us found the option in our privacy settings was “not yet available”, which meant we could neither enable or disable it. We […]

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