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Tips For Java Junkies

So, according to our recent poll, only 12% of you don't have Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed. And the rest of you (88%) are Java junkies to one degree or another.Okay, well, for the 41% of...

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Perfecting the Fake - Android Edition

When fake AVs used to take the limelight, their user interface started from pretty-crappy-and-obviously-rogue-AV and ended up with a very convincing design. It took a while for the miscreants to get...

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Gameover ZeuS

Excerpted from from our Threat Report H1 2012:In the last year ZeuS has separated into more than one separately developed crimeware families after the source code for version 2.0.8.9 was leaked. An...

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World at 2022

Tom Scott has a pretty accurate prediction of what the World will look like in 2022.YouTube On 05/09/12 At 10:34 PM

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Governments Recruiting Backdoor Authors #germany

Just couple of years ago, it would have been unthinkable that governments would be openly recruiting trojan and backdoor developers to work for them.Yet, that's exactly what's happening now.For a...

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A Map of Gameover (P2P ZeuS) Variants #Italy

Our back end automation began logging "Gameover" related IP addresses back in May. Gameover is the Peer-to-Peer variant of the ZeuS banking trojan. Last week, we took 3,300+ of the IPs and performed a...

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Revolutionary New "Anti-Fishing" Technology

Take a look at this awesome "anti-fishing" tech we've developed:And it works great!@anttitikkanen On 12/09/12 At 10:04 AM

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Slapper

Ten years ago, one of the largest Linux worm outbreaks was underway. Known as Slapper, the worm infected Linux machines via an OpenSSL vulnerability. Infected Linux servers were organized into a P2P...

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Cosmo The Hacker God

In early August, Wired.com Gadget Lab writer, Mat Honan, experienced an "epic hacking". His own.  •  How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic HackingMat's iPhone, Mac, and Google account...

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ZeroAccess: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Planet

Some botnets are so big… you can see them from space (or at least, Google Earth).Here's what the ZeroAccess botnet looks like in Europe: Click image for an expanded view (1680x1030).More to follow —...

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Internet Explorer Zero-Day and Safe Browsing

The people behind the Java zero-day CVE-2012-4681 have been busy. It was only a few weeks ago that the Java vulnerability was made public and now they have again discovered a hole in Internet Explorer...

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The United States of ZeroAccess

Monday's post included a screenshot of the ZeroAccess botnet as visualized in Google Earth. Well, we've finished cleaning up the KML file which now includes 139,447 bot locations based on IP addresses...

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It's Out of Cycle Patch Friday

As you probably know by now, there's a critical vulnerability in several versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.Microsoft Security Advisory (2757760)Microsoft has previously released a "Fix it".And...

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Backdoor:OSX/Imuler.B No Likes Wireshark

A new variant of Mac malware — Imuler.B — has recently surfaced. It's pretty much the same as Backdoor:OSX/Imuler.A, but with small changes and code optimizations. The current C&C server is...

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A View Inside Our KUL Lab

Here's an iOS 6 panorama view of our lab in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) as taken by analyst @raufridzuan, sometime around 6:45 PM.Click image to embiggen.Looks to be at least four people there. Long day…...

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Samsung TouchWiz Devices Vulnerable to Mischief

Saw this tweet yesterday on Twitter:The account is a parody… but the "tel:*2767*3855%23" is quite serious.It's a reference to a "vulnerability" which exists on some versions of Samsung Android phones,...

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Adobe Cert Used to Sign Malware

Adobe's head of product security, Brad Arkin, published a very interesting post on Thursday.As it turns out, one of Adobe's build servers was compromised and was used to create malicious files with...

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CVE-2012-1535 and Nuclear Warheads

Our corporate business team has an upcoming "software updater" feature in our Protection Service which they want to market. So they asked our lab analyst @TimoHirvonen to provide them with an example...

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When You're in the Wild with Websites

This StopBadware video by Bluehost is simply too odd not to share:And it offers some decent advice for keeping your website secure. On 02/10/12 At 12:26 PM

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WordPress Premium Theme XSS Vulnerability

On Tuesday, we shared a rather silly video which made a serious point about the need to keep websites secure.Unfortunately, limiting potential website vulnerabilities is not exactly intuitive. There's...

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