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?Malware authors and distributors follow the money. When you consider the growing popularity of social networking websites, it should come as no surprise that malware continues to maintain its presence in this area.  Every year we are spending a growing proportion of our time online using social media like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. What does this […]

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The Oslo Freedom Forum is an annual event “exploring how best to challenge authoritarianism and promote free and open societies.” This year’s conference (which took place May 13-15) had a workshop for freedom of speech activists on how to secure their devices against government monitoring. During the workshop, Jacob Appelbaum actually discovered a new and […]

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Several weeks ago, an McAfee researcher named Michael Zhang analyzed an Android trojan which specifically targets South Korean phones. It’s called Smsilence, and it uses bait such as “Starbucks coupon” apps (ex: starbug.apk). Here’s the phone number check looking for country code +82: A detail not included in Zhang’s post: the URLs / IP addresses […]

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