F-Secure has an additional blog that launched today. It’s called Safe and Savvy .

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Be Savvy, Get Six Months of Internet Security

ATM skimmers are installed like this: Video source: Spiegel.de & German Federal Criminal Office (Bundeskriminalamt) On 10/03/10 At 12:06 PM

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How are ATM skimmers installed?

As ” JiLsi ” — one of the online criminals from Darkmarket — was sentenced last week to almost five years in prison, we have received some media queries on the case. In particular, one journalist wanted to know what JiLsi (aka Renu Subramaniam), Matrix001 (aka Markus Kellerer) and Cha0 (aka Çağatay Evyapan) looked like when they were posting to the Darkmarket forum.

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Darkmarket Avatars

The creators of the SymbOS.Exy family of threats are at it again. They have resurfaced with yet another signed Symbian threat: SymbOS.Exy.E .

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A Touch of Mobile Threat Déjà Vu

Ten of Application Security industry’s coolest, most interesting, important, and entertaining links from the past week — in no particular order. Microsoft’s Many Eyeballs and the Security Development Lifecycle A Comparison of DBIR with UK breach report Infrastructure vs

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Best of Application Security (Friday, Feb. 19)

Ten of Application Security industry’s coolest, most interesting, important, and entertaining links from the past week — in no particular order. Accuracy and Time Costs of Web Application Security Scanner Report The Web won’t be safe, let alone secure, unless we break it Why don’t websites default to SSL/TLS?

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Best of Application Security (Friday, Feb. 5)

Updates February 9th will bring numerous Microsoft Updates, 13 bulletins addressing 26 vulnerabilities. All versions of Windows are affected.

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Microsoft Updates and Vulnerabilities

We’ve received some questions regarding Apple’s iPad , and whether or not the lack of Adobe Flash support is for security reasons. Well, no, we don’t think so.

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Is the lack of iPad Flash support for security?

Facebook recently rolled out new privacy settings that provides additional publishing controls. For example, Facebook users can now publish a photo to a selected list of friends.

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Facebook Privacy Doesn’t Really Exist

Looking at a random new incoming malware sample in our sample automation systems. Notice the Mutex names it uses: Hey STFU yourself, why don’t you?

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It’s Nice To Get Noticed