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.

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All Your Farm Are Belong To Us

Heads-up for users still running Windows XP : The unpatched Help Center flaw revealed last week is now out in the wild and being used to launch malware attacks against target users. This new zero-day exploit takes advantage of the vulnerability that exists in the Microsoft Windows Help Center , a default Microsoft application that allows users to access online documentation for Windows. This vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user views a malicious website, either via their Based on the analysis of TrendLabs SM threat analyst Joseph Cepe, there are two ways in which a user can get infected as shown below.

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Microsoft Help Center Zero-Day Exploits Loose

We recently received a report of a new phishing attack that originated from Mexico. It takes advantage of the controversial news about an allegedly missing four-year-old girl , Paulette Gebara Farah, who was later found dead in her own bedroom.  On investigation we found that this attack came from a Mexican botnet and that it was trying to steal banking / financial related information from users.

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“Tequila Botnet” Targets Mexican Users

There has been a considerable amount of news activity purporting that Google is looking to do a full-scale migration away from using Microsoft products, citing security as the primary impetus.

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Trying to Rely on the Right Platform Provides the Wrong Protection

It’s May 31st and today is the so-called Quit Facebook Day . Currently there are almost 27 thousand committed quitters. That’s not very many people considering that Facebook is approaching 500 million accounts.

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Poll: Anyone Quitting Facebook Today?

I do not believe that Chong Loris exists. No picture of her appears to exist. A Google search of her name returns no results

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The Ghosts of Facebook

Google is presenting a paper tomorrow (Tuesday, April 27) regarding websites that offer fake antivirus software. Part of Google’s research shows that search engine results can lead to such pages.

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Search Engine Results Continue to be Poisoned

You might remember the Ghostnet white paper that was released a year ago? We blogged about it extensively. The same researchers, with the help of Shadowserver Foundation, has now published a new whitepaper, called Shadows In The Cloud: Investigating Cyber Espionage 2.0 (link to a PDF).

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Shadows in the Cloud

Adobe’s PDF Reader gets lots of criticism for poor security. However, the problems go beyond one specific PDF reader brand

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Does PDF stand for Problematic Document Format?

At the recent Pwn2Own contest held during the CanSecWest 2010 security conference, the Web browser targets were the latest versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari. All of the targeted browser platforms were patched up to date and included the latest anti-exploitation technologies.

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Pwn2Own 2010: Lessons Learned