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WordPress Plugin Social Media Widget Hiding Spam – Remove it now

Apr

2013

If you are using the Social Media Widget plugin (social-media-widget), make sure to remove it immediately from your website. We discovered it is being used to inject spam into websites and it has also been removed from the WordPress Plugin repository.This is a very popular plugin with more than 900,000 downloads. It has the potential […]

Category Security Written by Sucuri Blog 0 Comments

Google Play: Potentially Unwanted

Mar

2013

Google Play has a problem — and it isn’t malware. Depending on location, Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUA) can be rather difficult to avoid. Here’s a screenshot of User Reviews from a “weather widget” application: In English (both U.S. and U.K.), there are eight user reviews. Just eight. Even if you click on a link to […]

Category General Written by F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog 0 Comments

Click to Play: the next step for Firefox

Nov

2012

Click to Play first appeared in Firefox 14 and it appeared in developer versions of Chrome back in 2010. I described the feature in a post last July. Click to Play disables all plugins by default on all pages. The user then has to explicitly click on a warning to let the plugin, Flash or Java for […]

Category Security Written by Zscaler Research 0 Comments

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