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Twitter Racism, By The Numbers

14

Feb

2014

Roughly every 9 seconds, someone sends out a potentially racist tweet. A new study from the British think tank Demos offers the first in-depth look at racially-charged language on Twitter, finding some 10,000 tweets per day that use language that might be considered offensive. But as it turns out, many of those tweets may not […]

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Yet Another Bunch of Malicious Apps Found on Google Play

31

Jul

2013

In a recent blog entry we covered how scammers continue to publish malicious apps on Google Play and how the Android app market is struggling to keep itself clean.In many cases it is difficult to quickly identify any malicious intent of applications and in-depth analysis is often required to be truly safe-a challenge for Google […]

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BET VIP Concert Ticket Scam Spreading on Twitter

19

Jul

2013

This weekend one of my favorite bands won free concert tickets on Twitter. They tweeted about the message they received from another Twitter user. Figure 1. Sarcastic tweet about free concert tickets This type of scam looked familiar from a security standpoint. Upon further investigation, we at Symantec Security Response confirmed these suspicions. Figure 2. Spam account replies […]

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