When a company is hit with a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack, the natural reaction is to downplay the significance of the incident.
After all, an XSS vulnerability on a site does not mean that the site could be hacked or [...Read More...]
Zynga’s FarmVille is a popular social networking game and perhaps it should come as little surprise that many players want to learn FarmVille secrets and cheats. And so they turn to search engines to find them.
Currently, “farmville cheats” is [...Read More...]
Adobe released a critical Flash update on June 10th. If you haven’t seen it yet, this is the update notification:
Do you know what Flash version you have installed? No? Then use Adobe’s version test page.
Once you have the [...Read More...]
Our Internet Security 2011 Beta is now available for download.
Beta testers receive a six month subscription and the opportunity to influence the final release.
The biggest new feature from the lab’s point of view is our “DeepGuard 3″ technology [...Read More...]
The folks in PR have come up with a competition to promote our Anti-Theft for Mobile software.
We’re giving away 15 phones — 12 Nokia 5230 and 3 Nokia X6 — starting on June 15th.
You’ll find the details here: [...Read More...]
There’s yet another Facebook spam application on the run.
It uses this string of text to lure folks: “I am shocked!!! The teacher nearly killed this boy: http://bit.ly/aWeBMl – Worldwide scandal!”
If you click on the link, you’re directed to [...Read More...]
The 2010 FIFA World Cup starts today in South Africa.
Four years ago, in 2006, we were on the lookout for football themed malware. Here’s one example of a football themed e-mail worm.
Today, in 2010, we’re more likely to [...Read More...]
An SMS scam syndicate has been busted with the arrest of 26 people according to Malaysia’s The Star Online.
Our Malaysian lab did some investigation on this topic back in 2007 and managed to record a conversation with one of [...Read More...]
June 11th kicks off the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and not surprisingly, we’re seeing a rise in related spam.
It’s still just a small percentage of spam overall (under 2%) but when comparing the first three days from the last [...Read More...]
The lab is currently seeing a spam run pushing a PDF exploit.
The emails look like this:
From: random addresses To: random recipients Subject: New Resume Please review my CV, Thank You! Attachment: resume.pdf
This PDF attachment is not utilizing the critical Flash vulnerability [...Read More...]
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