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Sophos Security Threat Report Update reveals 2011’s top threats so far

02

Aug

2011

Sophos has just published its Mid-Year 2011 Security Threat Report [PDF]. Highlights of the report include the following: a 60% increase in malware over 2010, with Sophos seeing more than 150,000 new malware samples every day – that is one every 0.5 seconds. 19,000 malicious webpages are now identified daily, with 80% being pages on […]

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A Walkthrough of a FAKEAV Infection in Mac OS X

09

Jun

2011

For some years now, FAKEAV has been a plague in Windows systems. It’s only recently that this variant has entered the Mac OS X scene. As was the case with Windows-based FAKEAV, the most common infection vector for Mac FAKEAV is through poisoned search terms.Take for example the following poisoned search result:Accessing the website while […]

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Cybercriminals Catch the Olympic Fever Early On

26

May

2011

There is no doubt that athletes all around the world are training hard to compete at the London Olympics in 2012, but cyber criminals seem to be gearing up for the event as well. Even with over 400 days still to go until the Olympics, we have already started seeing search terms related to this […]

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