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McDonald’s Facebook scam: Happy Birthday to…Donald?

17

Oct

2011

I’m sure a McDonald’s themed Facebook scam seemed like a good idea to somebody at the time, but wow is this one all over the place. It’s your typical “Click here to Like”, “Post a spam comment saying how good this is” then “do one of these offers” affair. However, there are many things about […]

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Adobe Releases Out-of-Band Patch

22

Sep

2011

Adobe released an out-of-band security update to address six critical vulnerabilities, all affecting Adobe Flash Player.One of the six, a cross-site scripting vulnerability identified as CVE-2011-2444, is reportedly being exploited in the wild. The bug is reportedly being used in targeted attacks that involve malicious links sent out to targets through email messages.Adobe attributed the […]

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Rooting Exploit for Android Works Silently

15

Sep

2011

In our last blog about Android malware, we discussed the expanding threat landscape for Android malware. Recently, we received an Android package in our collection and observed that this malicious application uses a rooting exploit that targets Android devices running OS Versions 2.3 or earlier to gain root privileges on the compromised device. The malware […]

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