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Facebook Worm: ZeuS is not your (FB) Friend

01

Dec

2011

Danish security company CSIS have reported a worm that really does spread through Facebook, unlike some of the malware we've seen described in hoaxes recently. Peter Kruse tells us that the worm logs in as the owner of the infected system and spams messages to his or her friends. The message consists of a link […]

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Virtualization & Conferencing

03

Nov

2011

Sadly, having signed up some time ago (see Conferencing in the Metaverse) for the SC Virtual Summit taking place today , I'm too tied up with other things to actually attend. The summit offers "live webcasts, videos and exhibitors all in a virtual world…" On entering the virtual exhibition hall, visitors can view live videos, download white […]

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Gaddafi search poisoning

21

Oct

2011

Here's an example of search poisoning somewhat similar to that predicted by Stephen Cobb using the death of Gaddafi as a hook, noted by our colleague Raphael Labaca Castro, of ESET Latin America. The original blog is in Spanish. Raphael reports an email that comes with the following title (in Portuguese, suggesting that Brazilian Internet users […]

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