Over the weekend, our lab stumbled upon a spambot application that capitalizes on Chuck Norris’ popularity to boost a particular site’s search engine ranking via spamdexing.

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Chuck Norris Spamdexing

Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO), which F-Secure is a member of, had a meeting in Helsinki in May. During that meeting AMTSO members approved two new guidelines to be published

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New AMTSO guidelines

The Register has interesting article on 50 people that were arrested in Romania for using smart phone spying tools to spy on their spouses, competitors and other people who fell victim for one or another motivation.

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50 people arrested for for using smartphone spying tools

Earlier this month, Adobe addressed a vulnerability issue that affects three products: Flash Player, Reader and Acrobat. While the Flash Player issue was fixed rather quickly, refer to Adobe Flash Player 10.1.53.64 Security Update , the latter two products did not receive similar love as their updates were only promised to be available at a later date, on June 29, 2010.

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Security Updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat

We have a beta of a new product available for download on our beta pages .

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F-Secure PC Booster beta

Ace from our Kuala Lumpur lab has written a technical white paper on the internals of the highly advanced TDL3 trojan.

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The Case of TDL3

Jarno Niemelä from our lab did a study on malicious Windows binaries that have been signed ( with Microsoft Authenticode ).

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It’s Signed, therefore it’s Clean, right?

Zynga’s FarmVille is a popular social networking game and perhaps it should come as little surprise that many players want to learn FarmVille secrets and cheats.

More:
All Your Farm Are Belong To Us

There’s yet another Facebook spam application on the run. It uses this string of text to lure folks: “I am shocked!!! The teacher nearly killed this boy: http://bit.ly/aWeBMl - Worldwide scandal!” If you click on the link, you’re directed to this application: How many have clicked on the link so far?

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Facebook Spam App Du Jour

The 2010 FIFA World Cup starts today in South Africa.

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Wr0ld Cup 2010