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Plesk Zero-Day Exploit Results in Compromised Webserver

Jun

2013

We’re tracking a zero-day exploit affecting a still unpatched vulnerability in Plesk that enables an attacker to fully control a vulnerable webserver. Plesk is made by Parallels and is a popular hosting control panel. This vulnerability means all websites hosted on systems that use Plesk are at risk. This spells trouble not only for web […]

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Profile Spy Resurrects on Eve of Mayan Apocalypse

Dec

2012

Ah, Profile Spy, a once viral scam on Facebook and Twitter that entices users to check out who have been viewing their profiles.Today, on the eve of the rumored EoW, it has decided to rear its ugly head once more.During Profile Spy’s random stints on the Web, we have observed that the criminals behind it have […]

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Facebook Spammers Use Amazon’s Cloud

Jan

2012

Facebook is recently doing a decent job at keeping survey spam posts at bay (all things considered). So, what’s an entrepreneurial Facebook spammer to do? Well, some have tweaked their master plan, and have expanded their use of “cloud” services. Using Amazon’s S3 file hosting service solves quite a few problems for these perpetrators. Number […]

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