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Facebook scam promises free Macbook Air

17

Oct

2011

Compromised Facebook accounts are being used to send out scam posts promising free Apple Macbooks. The scam does not make reference to the death of Steve Jobs as others have. The link leads to marketing affiliate sites that ask for a user’s mobile phone number – users are then signed up for premium mobile content […]

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RIP Dennis Ritchie, inventor of C and father of UNIX

14

Oct

2011

Dennis Ritchie, the researcher and computer scientist whom Wired farewelled with the headline The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On, has returned from main(). He died at his home last weekend. Dr Ritchie can perhaps most succinctly be described as the inventor of C and the father of UNIX, work for which he and Bell Labs […]

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A Refresher on Spam and Exploits

13

Oct

2011

Lately, we have been seeing a renewed increase in volume of spam attacks that utilizes an exploit kit – specifically, the BlackHole exploit kit – to trigger a malicious payload. Specifically, we have seen this in the latest slew of Automated Clearing House (ACH) spam, and the more recent spam run related to Steve Jobs’ […]

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