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How to Secure Your Jailbroken iPhone
Written by Sarah Perez / November 13, 2009 6:01 AM / 1 Comments

Earlier this week, the news of the first iPhone worm made its way around the net. Since the

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New iPhone Worm: How Worried Should We Be?
Written by Sarah Perez / November 9, 2009 6:24 AM / 12 Comments

Numerous reports have surfaced over the weekend regarding the first iPhone worm spotted in the wild. The worm,

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How to Avoid Malware on Facebook and Twitter: 8 Best Practices
Written by Sarah Perez / October 30, 2009 5:00 PM / 13 Comments

Thanks to the popularity of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, it's a given that malicious hackers

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Microsoft, NY Times and Scareware Offenses
Written by Dana Oshiro / September 17, 2009 9:30 PM / 3 Comments

Microsoft is taking aim at malvertising in an effort to curb the phenomenon. The Redmond company filed five

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Researchers Discover Botnet Commanded by Google Groups
Written by Sarah Perez / September 14, 2009 7:42 AM / 4 Comments

New Trend: Web 2.0-controlled malware? Security researchers at Symantec recently uncovered a backdoor trojan whose spread is being

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Latest Facebook Scare: The Cure May Be Worse Than The Disease
Written by Dana Oshiro / September 7, 2009 8:49 PM / 6 Comments

It's seems like every virus produces a list of capitalistic charlatans. During the Bubonic plague, thousands spent their

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SlideShare Used to Spread Malware
Written by Sarah Perez / August 5, 2009 6:30 AM / 8 Comments

When it comes to spreading malware on the web, virus writers are nothing if not creative. We've seen

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Are Mobile Botnets in Our Future?
Written by Sarah Perez / July 30, 2009 6:32 AM / 4 Comments

Today at the cybersecurity conference known as Black Hack, researchers Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner will present an

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Security Guru Calls Chrome OS's Security Claims "Idiotic"
Written by Sarah Perez / July 9, 2009 8:33 AM / 38 Comments

Noted security guru Bruce Schneier, chief technologist at BT, has scoffed at Google's claims about its new OS,

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Warn Users of Malware on Facebook - Get Banned?
Written by Sarah Perez / June 25, 2009 11:19 AM / 11 Comments

Looking for a good conspiracy theory today? Well here's one: Chris Almond, the administrator of a Facebook group

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Dasient: Ex-Googlers Launch Website Security as a Service
Written by Lidija Davis / June 16, 2009 7:05 AM / 10 Comments

Ever come across a Google search result that has the words 'this site can harm your computer' below

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It's Alive! Conficker Wakes Up - And Now It Has a Business Model
Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 9, 2009 9:38 AM / 7 Comments

Conficker, the Internet worm that caused a mild panic reminiscent of Y2K late last month, but which failed

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First Came Geo-Awareness, Then Came Geo-Aware Malware
Written by Sarah Perez / March 17, 2009 6:27 AM / 4 Comments

An internet worm that uses social engineering to direct you to a malicious web page is nothing new

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A New Twist to the Adobe Vulnerability
Written by Lidija Davis / March 8, 2009 4:14 PM / 18 Comments

If you think it is safe to download PDF documents and view them once Adobe finally releases its

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Google's "Open" Phone, Open to Attack?
Written by Sarah Perez / January 27, 2009 6:06 AM / 11 Comments

In recent days, an application designed for Google's mobile operating system "Android" was accused of wiping data from

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Obama's Social Network Being Used to Spread Malware
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 26, 2009 9:59 AM / 4 Comments

Social media has been exhilarating so far - but are you ready to see it become a much

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TinyURL Being Used to Bypass Safe Browsing Filters in Firefox, Chrome
Written by Sarah Perez / January 26, 2009 5:49 AM / 11 Comments

TinyURL, one of the most popular URL-shortening services (although not our favorite) is now being used by cybercriminals

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The Facebook Virus Spreads: No Social Network is Safe
Written by Sarah Perez / December 11, 2008 6:27 AM / 38 Comments

"Koobface" is the name of the Trojan worm that's been making its way through the social networking site

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