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Messing with Internet scammers

Online scammers are resourceful people who take advantage of people’s gullibility and lack of knowledge about Internet dynamics, but once in a while they happen to …

Rogue AV uses legitimate uninstallers to cripple computers

The fact that some rogue AV solutions try to prevent the real ones from doing their job is widely known in the security community, but CoreGuard Antivirus – a …

Google patches critical and high flaws with new Chrome version

Google Chrome 5.0.375.127 has been released to the Stable Channel on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and fixes the following security issues: [45400] Critical Memory corruption with …

Anonymizing anti-censorship tool for thwarting repressive regimes

Just a year ago, 25-year old Austin Heap was a typical computer programmer, enjoying playing videogames during his downtime. But events that were unfolding half a world away …

Justin Bieber offering free tickets on Facebook? It’s a scam

Bieber fans have been targeted by the latest Facebook scam – agree to let the application post messages on your wall and subscribe for a £4.50 per week premium rate …

40 Windows apps affected by critical code execution flaw

Some 40 Windows applications are affected by a critical vulnerability that can allow attackers to execute malicious code remotely and infect the computers with malware, says …

New ICQ worm spreads like fire

A new worm is targeting ICQ users, but apart from spreading itself by taking control of the ICQ application of the victim to send out more of the same messages and a file …

Twitter app demonstrates spammers have nothing to worry about

A fun, seemingly innocuous Twitter application created by a scottish teenager became a good example of how easy is to trick even technologically savvy users into participating …

DDoS threat spam targets domain owners

An interesting and not that often seen approach to make users part with their hard-earned cash has been spotted recently by Symantec. In the email in question, the spammer …

Facebook clickjacking scam tries to rip off users

If you happen to see a post on your friends’ Facebook pages about “Top 10 Funny T-Shirt Fails ROFL”, don’t fall for it. It’s just another scheme …

Stolen flash drive with sensitive financial info

Another example that demonstrates the need to follow security policy when it comes to keeping personal and financial information handled by businesses and organizations secure …

Android game hides spying application

If you have a game called Tap Snake on your Android handset and you weren’t the one who installed it, you are probably getting spied on by someone who had physical …

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