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Anonymous Releases ‘Warhead’ via #OpLastResort

28

Jan

2013

There has been a great explosion of chatter in the last day around Anonymous’ “Operation Last Resort” (a.k.a. #OpLastResort).The entities behind the various “official” communications around this operation have a sense of humor that we must point out (especially because if you don’t catch it, you will end up wiping your disk).BackgroundIn typical fashion with […]

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The Dangers of Posting Credit Cards, IDs on Instagram and Twitter

05

Dec

2012

These days, cybercriminals and other bad guys on the Internet may no longer have to use infostealing Trojans to gather data from users. Users intentionally posting pictures of their IDs, credit cards on Twitter and Instagram are already doing the job for them.I’ve been noticing several young people (and even adults) who post pictures of […]

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Two year old PDF exploit returns to popularity

17

Oct

2012

For the last two weeks we have been noticing significant increase of PDF exploit attacks being distributed by email with an attached PDF document posing as a fake invoice.However, closer examination of the PDF file has shown that the exploit uses a two-year-old classified as CVE-2010-0188. Why would anyone use so old an exploit? Well […]

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