Tag: research
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Snooping into Palin emails? Watch out for the criminals snooping on you!
Following the recent news on how an anonymous group has managed to take over Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! email account; we have noticed some interesting happenings. As wikileaks which was the original posting location of the images taken from Palin’s yahoo inbox was unavailable for some time, copies of the wikileaks post started to appear on…
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Less phish, more meat? Malweb proving to be more efficient than phishing scams.
In a somewhat below-the-radar report, the anti-phishing working group (APWG) Q1 report is for the first time in its report showing a decrease in the number of phishing reports towards the end of the quarter. In a startling (although expected) contrast – reports on crimeware, malware, Trojans and other malicious code (all delivered by Malweb!)…
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Chrome, IE8, FF3 – is there anything new?
As websites are getting to be treated more like applications, users, both end-users and especially business ones, are moving from traditional old-school desktop applications (remember when “client-server†architecture was the thing?) to Software as a Service (SaaS), in-the-cloud, and just plain web applications. Security has been shifting from securing the local operating system to securing…
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The impact of just 5 random letters…
We have been watching in amazement the impact our latest Malicious Page of the Month had on the industry and media. From coverage at Fox Business News, and the Washington Post, all the way to the more “traditional” security outlets such as SecurityFocus, SC Magazine and bloggers such as Dancho Danchev. The scary thing is the…
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And the winner for “top virus” of 2007 is…
Not a virus. Not even a malware. Neither is the runner up… It’s the method of how malware is populated. According to a report, the most common malware attack in 2007 is the notorious IFRAME. On our monthly and quarterly reports we provided more in-depth analysis of such top-ranking IFRAME and obfuscated code. In Finjan’s…