Posts Tagged ‘spite’

Facebook ducks U.S. privacy questions

Jan

2012

Two U.S. congressman have charged Facebook with evading questions on whether it tracks users for targeted ads. Meanwhile, Facebook has gone ahead and filed a patent that enables it to do just that, all the while insisting it has no intent to track users when they’re not logged into the social media network. The congressmen, […]

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A Package-scam Malware Attack

Oct

2011

Yesterday, WebPulse blocked over 100 attempts by our users to download a malicious executable. It’s an attack type I don’t remember specifically writing about in the past, so it’s worth a quick post. The sample I grabbed was named USPS_Invoice_10242011.PDF.exe. From the file name, I rather suspected that I would find that this was another […]

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Telex: even MORE anonymous?

Jul

2011

In this case, we aren’t referencing the group who, as of late, has made headlines for hacking endeavors. A new technology, sort of a modified proxy chain on steroids, seems to be gaining some proof-of-concept notoriety, hoping to offer new levels of anonymity while surfing online. The technology hopes that when users connect, the network […]

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