Malicious tweets keep coming and changing

Malicious tweets keep coming and changing


Malicious tweets keep coming and changing

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 10:57 AM PDT

There is no end in sight for malicious postings on Facebook and Twitter. And although Facebook has become quite adept at spotting them and blocking the malicious links quickly, Twitter has yet to show...

Sign of the times: Social engineering contest at Defcon

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 08:49 AM PDT

It is a well known fact that Defcon regularly organizes capture-the-flag-style contests that see hackers pitted against each other in an effort to protect their own systems while gaining access to tho...

The termination of a spyware business

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 07:22 AM PDT

The Federal Trade Commission has put the brakes on the business practices of an operation that was selling spyware and showing customers how to remotely install it on other people's computers without ...

A preventative, layered approach to head off sophisticated malware threats

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 06:10 AM PDT

It attacked early in the morning without warning, provocation or even a whiff of foreshadowing. Unnoticed, it stealthily wormed through Beefmaster.com's network searching for and eventually gaining ac...

Fake Facebook account deactivation email

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 05:59 AM PDT

Sunbelt reports that in a spam run that may at first glance appear to be a phishing attempt aimed at getting your login credentials, mailboxes around the world have been filled with an email supposedl...

U.S. intelligence analyst arrested for passing on classified items to Wikileaks

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 05:20 AM PDT

A 22-year old Army intelligence analyst from Maryland has been arrested by U.S. Federal officials two weeks ago after he boasted about providing Wikileaks with combat videos (including that of the hel...

Critical Adobe Flash, Reader 0-day flaw exploited in the wild

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 02:59 AM PDT

A zero-day flaw affecting 10.0.x and 9.0.x versions of Adobe Flash Player - including the current version, which is 10.0.45.2 - has been spotted being exploited in the wild. The flaw also affects Adob...

Week in review: Flaw-ridden smartphones, Facebook app verification and malware-writing researchers

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 09:00 PM PDT

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: Critical vulnerabilities in Photoshop CS4 Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Photoshop CS4 11.01 and e...

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