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F-Secure ShareSafe Beta For Facebook

27

Sep

2011

Security applications and Facebook tend to mix together like oil and water. Folks generally want to share when they’re online — and not to worry about security. Many people don’t use security tools if they prove to be too cumbersome. Therefore, when attempting to develop a security application for Facebook… it had better not be […]

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New worm targeting weak passwords on Remote Desktop connections (port 3389)

29

Aug

2011

We’ve had reports of a new worm in the wild and that generates increased RDP traffic for our users on port 3389. Although the overall numbers of computers reporting detections are low in comparison to more established malware families, the traffic it generates is noticeable. The worm is detected as Worm:Win32/Morto.A and you can see […]

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Traffic Ticket…or Malicious Attachment?

22

Aug

2011

In the past we have seen malicious attacks pretending to be shipment notifications from various parcel delivery services. Now the New York State DMV has become the latest “brandjacking” victim for a series of malware attacks. Here is what the fake message looks like: Ticket-064-211.zip is the name of the malicious attachment, and it is […]

Category General Written by Symantec Security Response Blog 0 Comments

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