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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Social Networks & Social Engineering – Twitter Round 1
My first review will be Twitter. I selected Twitter because it’s widely used and even easier for social engineering than some of the others. First a little background on Twitter. Many people categorize Twitter as a “micro” blog. This means … Continue reading
Posted in Social Networks
Tagged bit.ly, cyber attacks, cyber threats, cybercriminal, cybersecurity, evading detection, Facebook, get-shorty, hacker, hackers, infected webpage, infected website, infectious websites, malicious code, malware, snipurl, social engineering, tinyurl, Twitter
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Social Networks & Social Engineering – What a Pair
When we started this service we knew that one of our main goals was to “get the word out” on how websites have been in the line of fire for cybercriminals. We published a report, “How Cybercriminals Use Your Website … Continue reading
Posted in Social Networks
Tagged anti-virus, cyber attacks, cybercriminal, Facebook, fastpitch, Frank Kern, hacker, hackers, infected webpage, infected website, infectious websites, Jeff Walker, linkedin, malicious code, malware, myspace, security threats, social engineering, trojan, Twitter, Yanik Silver
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Malicious PDF's being sent
In the past 2 days we’ve been picking up malicious Adobe Acrobat files also known as PDF’s (the file extension on these files). We received these files in our honeypots as email attachments and when clicked on they infect Windows … Continue reading
Website used by Federal Government Hacked!
It was discovered that GovTrip.com, a website used by federal government employees for booking travel reservations was hacked and serving up malicious code through redirects. The site is currently unavailable as they perform their forensic investigation and clean up the mess. According … Continue reading
Posted in Current Event Attacks
Tagged compromised website, cybercriminal, govtrip.com, malicious code, redirect code
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Malware and Internet Marketing Methods
Everyone knows that in order to be successful online you have to have visitors and buyers – makes sense right? In working toward getting this site more visitors and thus more buyers (clients) I’ve studied many of the methods that … Continue reading
Anti-virus companies get hacked
I was going to avoid jumping on the bandwagon of blasting the anti-virus companies for getting their websites hacked, but another vulnerability was just exploited so I can’t hold back any longer. If you’ve followed any of my talks, presentations, … Continue reading
Posted in Current Event Attacks
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