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Tumblr Adds Two-Step Authentication to Ward Off Hackers

26

Mar

2014

As a part of an effort to ramp up security efforts and keep away hackers, Tumblr is the latest company to add two-step authentication to its social blogging platform.

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Adobe Incubates Flash Runtime for Firefox

08

Feb

2012

The Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Player Incubator program updated their Flash Platform runtime beta program to version 5, delivered as Flash Player version 11.2.300.130. It includes a “sandboxed” version of the 32-bit Flash Player they are calling “Protected Mode for Mozilla Firefox on Windows 7 and Windows Vista systems”. It has been over a […]

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Premium Rate SMS Trojans in Google’s Android Market

12

Dec

2011

Premium rate SMS trojans were discovered in Google’s Android Market earlier today. The developer, named “Lagostrod”, offered supposed free versions of many popular applications. And while Google has shut down the official market account, sites such as AppBrain still list the downloads. Based on AppBrain’s numbers, Lagostrod’s apps were downloaded numerous times. But that isn’t […]

Category General Written by F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog 0 Comments

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