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

I wasn’t sure I’d see this Browser Choice update : I set my computer’s Regional Options for the United States even though it’s physically located in Finland (I’m an American after all). Regional settings might trump my IP address, I thought… but it seems not. I manually ran Microsoft Update and was provided access to KB976002

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Select Your Web Browser(s)

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?

The number of serious zero-day vulnerabilities and potential exploits discovered in recent days is higher than normal.

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Multiple Vendors Affected By New Vulnerabilities

April 3 cannot come soon enough for those who are eager to get their hands on the iPad . If anything, Apple ’ s recent announcement that the gadget will soon be available in the United States only added to the excitement over the much-talked-about gadget.

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iPad Giveaway Gives Users’ Identities Away

It seems that fans around the world are not the only ones who are hooked on the Oscars .

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Oscars 2010 Awards Users with FAKEAV

The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) issued a new vulnerability note . However, this particular “vulnerability” concerns a rather unusual product—a USB charger for rechargeable batteries.

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USB Battery Chargers with Malware?

Spam about diet or weight loss plans have been around for ages now, mostly spreading through email. However, spammed messages recently made their rounds on Twitter, compromising unwitting users’ accounts and spreading via these infected accounts. Compromised Twitter accounts post Tweets that tell their followers to click the shortened link to try out a new diet/weight loss plan.

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Diet Twitter Spam (on the) Run

Some time ago (February 25–26), the Anti-Malware Testing Standard Organization ( AMTSO ) had its first meeting this year.

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Insight: AMTSO’s Reviews

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