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Federal Trojan’s got a “Big Brother”

18

Oct

2011

About two weeks ago, the German Chaos Computer Club (CCC) has published an analysis report of a backdoor trojan that they claim had been used by German police during investigations in order to capture VoIP and IM communication on a suspect’s PC. Our friends over at F-Secure published a blog post last week where they […]

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Fraudulent Google.com Certificate Causes Worries

30

Aug

2011

A Dutch certificate authority, DigiNotar, has issued a fraudulent SSL certificate for google.com, which may lead to people attempting to use Google services being compromised. According to H Security, “The certificate was issued on 10 July to unknown persons in Iran.”The Electronic Frontier Foundation even states that this has led to man-in-the-middle attacks that may […]

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Spammers Take Advantage of Unicode Normalization to Hide URLs

04

Aug

2011

by Francisco Pardo and Nick Johnston Spammers are never idle when it comes to finding new ways to bypass mail filters—after all, this is crucial to a spammer's success. Recently, we've seen a low but steady number of spam messages in which spammers are replacing certain characters in URLs (which point to spam sites) with […]

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