Posted by admin on January 28, 2012
1. Just in time for Tax Season Starting today we began receiving emails from INTUIT at a bankofamerica.com email address (it’s spoofed). These emails notify the recipient of a problem between the IRS and Social Security and ask him to “use the following link” to review the information. The link leads to a Blackhole Exploit [...]
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Tags: Airline Tickets, Amazon Web, Anti Phishing Working Group, Apwg, Bbb, Computer Emergency Response, Computer Emergency Response Team, Conedison, Consolidated Edison, Emergency Response Team, facebook, Free Airline, Intuit, Nacha, Profile Organizations, Rabbit Hole, Thenew York, Threat Research, Web Threat, Zeus Bot | 
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Posted by admin on January 11, 2012
The AVG threat research lab expects no radically new web threats in 2012, but rather refinements of existing scams and malicious techniques. We expect business-as-usual for the dark side, although there seems to be some small successes in fighting the bot nets that distribute vast amounts of spam (including that containing malcode.) In 2011, Microsoft [...]
Categories: Security, Software | Tags: Bad Guys, Badness, Celebrity News, facebook, Fake Celebrity, Key Loggers, Low Hanging Fruit, Malicious Code, Moneymakers, Scams, Security Products, Software Installations, Sophisticated Applications, Technical Approaches, Threat Research, Toolkits, Trojan Horse Programs, Tweets, Unscrupulous Operators, Web Users | No Comments »
Posted by admin on December 23, 2011
Facebook has been found to be compliant with European data protection principles, but will face formal regulation again in the middle of next year.
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Posted by admin on December 23, 2011
Facebook has been found to be compliant with European data protection principles, but will face formal regulation again in the middle of next year.
Categories: Security, Software | Tags: Compliant, Data Protection Commissioner, European Data Protection, facebook, Irish Data, Protection Principles | No Comments »
Posted by admin on December 17, 2011
1. “YouTube Premium plugin” scams spreading on Facebook On the Facebook/YouTube scam front this week we came across phony posts that led to the usual survey sites, but also a new and potentially malicious YouTube Premium plugin (for Firefox/Chrome). The video offered is of an uncommonly well endowed Italian model and TV hostess, Marika Fruscio, [...]
Categories: Security, Software | Tags: Exploit, facebook, Firefox, Italian Model, Kit Software, Malicious Scripts, Marika Fruscio, Mozilla Add Ons, Nbsp, Peas And Carrots, Rogues, Scams, Security Products, Security Suggestions, Soccer, Spam Messages, Tv Hostess, Wardrobe Malfunction, Web Research, Web Threat | No Comments »
Posted by admin on November 15, 2011
By the time they are 11-years-old most kids have reached “digital maturity” or “digital adulthood”. Instead of spending time on kids’ specific websites, the majority of pre-teens are now on mainstream, adult social networks like Facebook and Twitter, according to AVG’s latest stage of our on-going ‘Digital Diaries’ study. This time around we surveyed 4000 [...]
Categories: Security, Software | Tags: 11 Years, 13 Year Olds, Adulthood, Avg, Bedrooms, Canada France, Digital Diaries, facebook, Living Room, Maturity, Parental Eyes, Parental Supervision, Passwords, Pre Teen, Pre Teens, Social Networks, Spending Time, Tuenti, Twitter, Two Thirds | No Comments »
Posted by admin on November 6, 2011
1. Facebook Scammers moving away from click jacking Facebook scammers are moving away from click jacking and instead social engineering naive Facebook users who are willing to “share” links to their scams. As we’ve monitored the bad guys’ click jack scams we have noticed a huge drop in the use of scripts that automatically post [...]
Categories: Security, Software | Tags: Bad Guys, Basketball Player, facebook, Hot Topic, Internet Users, Kim Kardashian, Kris Humphries, Malicious Code, Marriage, Pro Basketball, Rabbit, Rabbit Holes, Scammers, Scams, Scripts, Social Engineering, Spam Email, Subject Line, Web Search, Web Threat | No Comments »
Posted by admin on October 21, 2011
1. Twitter/Facebook teamed to advertise pharma spam site The AVG Threat Research Group found a new twist in pharma spam: using linked Twitter and Facebook accounts to gain credibility and spread advertising. Below are screen shots from the Twitter search engine and from Facebook. It appears as though the pharma scammers got access to [...]
Categories: Security, Software | Tags: Alarm Bell, Alarm Bells, Best Security, Credit Card Information, facebook, Internet User, New Twist, News Source, Off Chance, Post Messages, Research Group, Scammer, Scammers, Screen Shots, Security Seals, Threat Research, Twitter, Usernames And Passwords, Verisign, Web Threat | No Comments »
Posted by admin on October 4, 2011
Websense has announced a partnership with Facebook to protect users from malicious links.
Categories: internet | Tags: facebook, Partnership, Scan Links, Websense | No Comments »
Posted by admin on October 4, 2011
Websense has announced a partnership with Facebook to protect users from malicious links.
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