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With Bill Gates and crew protecting our ATMs with Windows, just thank God your bank accounts are insured by the FDIC up to $250,000. ATM Vendor Halts Researcher’s Talk on Vulnerability An ATM vendor h… more →
Eat It Or Wear It
Anatomy of an Attack comes to San Diego, Santa Fe, Toronto and Indianapolis
wrote 2 days ago: It has been a few months since our last Anatomy of an Attack event and we have finally scheduled the … more →
What can secure software development learn from Shakespeare, Roosevelt and Nehru?
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wrote 1 week ago: Do you know what William Shakespeare, Eleanor Roosevelt and Jawaharlal Nehru have in common with the … more →
Technical paper - Fake anti-virus: The journey from Trojan to a persistent threat
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Fake anti-virus (also known as scareware) has grown over the years into a persistent and prevalent t … more →
Easter eggs, with a side order of scareware
wrote 1 month ago: Several weeks ago, in early February, I asked the question “Is this the resurgence of Blackhat … more →
PDF malware adopts another obfuscation trick in attempt to avoid detection
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wrote 1 month ago: Security experts are playing a game of cat-and-mouse game with malware authors who are continually l … more →
OpenX ads leading to malware c/o 'BlackAdvertsPro'
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wrote 2 months ago: In recent weeks I have seen a number of ad servers running OpenX that have been compromised by attac … more →
Traffbiz: A new malicious twist on affiliate partnerka schemes?
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wrote 3 months ago: Website owners have to pay for their websites to be hosted and can easily be tempted to monetize the … more →
Android malware spreads via Facebook [VIDEO]
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wrote 3 months ago: If you’re using Facebook on your Android smartphone, you should be just as careful clicking on … more →
Is this the resurgence of Blackhat SEO?
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wrote 3 months ago: At the start of 2011, blackhat SEO was very much alive and kicking, and was being aggressively used … more →
Why is a 14-month-old patched Microsoft vulnerability still being exploited?
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wrote 3 months ago: The media – and indeed many parts of the security industry – just looove zero-day exploi … more →
Is Google Bouncer going to bounce all malware from the Android Market?
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wrote 3 months ago: Google pleasantly surprised the mobile malware research community yesterday by announcing that Andro … more →
Android Counterclank is (not) malware
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wrote 4 months ago: Despite the stint of very cold weather here in Europe, the Android malware scene is definitely warmi … more →
Malicious cloned games attack Google Android Market
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wrote 5 months ago: In the world of Android, a successful attack on applications hosted on Google’s Android Market … more →
Identify your missing security patches this Christmas
wrote 5 months ago: End-of-year security prediction lists have become as much of a holiday season tradition as overeatin … more →
Shopping spree at Morrisons? Nope, another Facebook scam...
wrote 6 months ago: Thanks to a tip we received from a Naked Security reader, we saw an interesting Facebook scam on Fri … more →
Apple's OS X sandbox has a gaping hole - or not
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wrote 6 months ago: Argentinian security company Core Labs (which is the core research group, if you will pardon the pun … more →
You practice safe computing, so why do you still see malware?
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wrote 6 months ago: Quite regularly, I get feedback from our customers that they’ve found malware on their compute … more →
Hide and seek with website injections
wrote 6 months ago: As we have seen many times before (e.g. Mal/Iframe-Gen, Mal/Iframe-W), compromised sites are frequen … more →
Adobe says goodbye to Flash for mobile platforms
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wrote 6 months ago: Adobe product management team has sent a briefing to Adobe’s partners describing the future di … more →
