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Fake Pope on Twitter dupes thousands of followers, says he’s loved more than Santa Claus

14

Mar

2013

Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was only named as the new Pope in Rome’s St Peter’s Square a few hours ago, and already he’s making an impact on social media.Hundreds of thousands of Twitter users, for instance, have started to follow @JMBergoglio, which purports to be the Twitter account of the Argentinian cardinal who has just landed […]

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Tapjacking: An Untapped Threat in Android

15

Dec

2012

Using social engineering tricks, a developer can create an app that tricks users into tapping a specifically-crafted app popup window (called toast view), making it a gateway for varied threats.This attack, dubbed tapjacking, takes advantage of a specific vulnerability in Android user interaction (UI) component.This technique is not very complicated but has serious security implications […]

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SFTP/FTP Password Exposure via sftp-config.json

24

Nov

2012

Have you heard of the file sftp-config.json? You haven’t? Neither did we until a few weeks ago. It is used by some SFTP/FTP clients (Sublime SFTP is one) to pre-configure SFTP/FTP connections to remote sites and it contains some useful information in there (not encrypted): “type”: “ftp”,..“host”: “FTP HOST”,“user”: “FTP USER”,“password”: “FTP PASS”,“port”: “21″, Which […]

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