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Week in review: Money mules, community anti-virus and Facebook bugs and privacy issues

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and reviews: Mobilizing a community to fight malware The word about …

New Facebook bug adds unauthorized apps to your profile

Just a few days after the bug that let users see their friends’ personal chats, another Facebook bug has been discovered yesterday, and this one was adding applications …

Small ISP wins in court, spammers must pay

Asis Internet Service, a smallish Californian ISP that counts only 4 employees, has 2.6 millions reason to celebrate. The ISP filed a lawsuit against a company named …

Clueless fraudster targets ThinkGeek

Popular online retailer ThinkGeek is – like many other retailers – sometimes targeted by fraudsters. To diagnose potential fraudulent orders, they usually …

Screenshot of YouTube video leads to DoS-capable worm

A screenshot of a YouTube video embedded with a link is the gateway to a malicious site where a worm with DoS capabilities is distributed, TrendLabs reports. The innocent …

Botnets battling for digital real estate

April saw high activity from multiple botnets, namely Gumblar and Sasfis, according to a report by Fortinet. While Gumblar remained in the No. 1 position in Fortinet’s …

Rogue software details: RST Antivirus 2010

RST Antivirus 2010 is a rogue security application. In order to remove it, find out what files and registry entries to look for below. Known system changes: Files …

Wireshark 1.2.8 released

Wireshark is a popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and education. The following bugs have been fixed: HTTP parser limits …

Suricata: Network intrusion detection and prevention engine

Suricata is a network intrusion detection and prevention engine developed by the Open Information Security Foundation and its supporting vendors. The engine is multi-threaded …

Firewall Builder 4.0 released

Firewall Builder helps you write and manage configuration for your firewalls. It writes iptables commands, pf.conf file, Cisco router access lists or PIX configuration for …

Deleting yourself from the Web

If there is one positive thing that the recent Facebook privacy changes have brought, it is a raised awareness about the fact that we ourselves are the best guardians of our …

Canadian Pharmacy no longer top spammed brand

According to the statistics by M86 Security Labs, Canadian Pharmacy – the long-standing champion of spammed affiliate brands – made way for the new reigning king: …

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