Spammers Exploit Facebook & Amazon Cloud

Jan 28, 2012 by

Spammers Exploit Facebook & Amazon Cloud

One of our favorite security blogs, F-Secure, recently posted the following informative article regarding some new malicious methods of Facebook spammers. Firefox and Chrome are used as avenues to further spread the scam via Facebook by use of a fraudulent YouTube browser plugin. A fake Facebook page displays a plugin installation if visited from either of those two browsers. Facebook is recently...

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Ted Talk: Defending the Net

Jan 25, 2012 by

Ted Talk: Defending the Net

Here is a great video of Mikko Hypponen from F-Secure.com at a recent Ted Talk discussing ways to “defend the net.”  This video is filled with fascinating and important information to keep your computer safe from external threats.  He even shows the audience the effects of some of the very first computer viruses upon...

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Mac Malware Summary 2011

Jan 20, 2012 by

Mac Malware Summary 2011

Courtesy of F-Secure.com: Brod, a researcher on the Threat Research team over at F-Secure.com has been tasked with tracking emerging Mac based threats. Microsoft Excel is one of the tools he uses to chart variants. From April to December 2011, there have been several dozen new Mac threats. Well, that’s nothing when compared to Windows malware — but it’s definitely something when...

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