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Social Media: Can’t Live With it, Can’t Live Without It.

In the past month, several phishing websites were observed to be spoofing online gaming brands. The popularity of the FIFA World Cup has encouraged users to visit legitimate gaming sites to play online football. The phishing sites were created with the hope of luring users to give up their credentials if they fell for fake offers celebrating the FIFA World Cup 2010

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Fraudulent Gaming Sites Providing Fake FIFA Offers

Earlier this month NPR’s Planet Money podcast had a session entitled, “ A War Between States And Corporations ,” where they interviewed Ian Bremmer (President, Eurasia Group). Mr. Bremmer is the author of The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations

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In a cyber-war, we fight for economic well-being

June 25, 2009 is a day that is etched in the memory of Michael Jackson fans worldwide. Jackson's death took a lot of people by surprise—the spammers included

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The King of Pop Lives On and Spammers are Paying Attention!

We've posted many articles discussing misleading applications and the tricks and techniques that are used to get them onto a user’s computer.

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Technical Support Phone Scams

Recently on Twitter I asked why some people feel oddly compelled to rely upon the shortcomings of Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) as a means to advocate for a Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL). To me this is odd because the long-term, risk-reducing value provided by secure code is enough on its own to warrant the investment

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anti-waf-software-security-only-zealotry

As 52 countries across the world gear up to celebrate Father’s day on Sunday, June 20, Symantec is monitoring the increase in the Father’s Day spam volume since the end of May.

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And Along Came Father’s Day Spam!

Recap If you missed Parts I and II of this blog series, you can find them here and here . I finished Part II promising to reveal the organization behind this sorry saga.

Spam made up 89.81 percent of all messages in May, compared with 89.22 percent in April. As we are approaching mid-year, a section of this month’s report takes a look at top spam and phishing trends in 2010 so far, and how those trends are continuing today. In this month’s report, Symantec’s anti-spam analysts also share what they consider to be the most annoying spam

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Spam and Phishing Landscape: June 2010