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Phishing: The Easy Way to Compromise Twitter Accounts

08

Feb

2013

Last week, Twitter announced that the details of around 250,000 of its users may have been compromised before it discovered and stopped an attack on their network. There is not much you can do when attackers go straight to the service provider to try to steal your data; however, it is also common for attackers […]

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Retweet to Become Verified on Twitter? Not Likely.

01

Feb

2013

There’s currently a number of “Twitter Verified” style accounts posting to Twitter, asking users to “Retweet to become verified”, or posting up peculiar minigames along the lines of “The last person to RT this Tweet becomes verified”. It’s all rather odd, and shows no sign of slowing down. click to enlarge At this point, we’ve […]

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Elderwood Project Behind Latest Internet Explorer Zero-Day Vulnerability

04

Jan

2013

In our recent blogs about the latest Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability, we explained what watering hole attacks are and referenced our research paper about the Elderwood Project. The paper highlights a string of watering hole attacks by the Elderwood group. After revisiting those previous attacks, we have been able to confirm that this latest Internet […]

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