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The death of a killer application?

2009-05-29

The first Internet killer application is by many considered to be email. Unfortunately email as a secure and reliable communication method has recently been threatened by ... email!

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SPIM – a new threat to the Internet community?

2007-08-21

Several users of the instant message service MSN messenger have recently been attacked by so-called ”SPIM” This has led some to believe that they have been attacked by an MSN-worm or a virus, which mission is to damage their computer.

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Project Honey Pot - an interesting spam fighting technique

2007-05-23

A honeypot can be loosely defined as a device that it meant to trick someone (or somewhat) to use it and thereby trick that person to perform a specific action with the honeypot instead of the real thing. Honeypots of different kinds are widely used as a security device in computer security.

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Pump and Dump Spam

2006-09-26
Don’t you hate spam...? Spammers get smarter every time and try new ways to get your attention and to avoid spam filters. more >>

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Shockwave Flash (SWF) Exploit

2010-03-04
Impact: Moderate Application: Adobe Flash Player 9.0.115.0 and earlier Vulnerability identifier: APSB08-11 CVE Number: CVE-2007-0071 Vulnerability details Adobe Flash Player is vulnerable to buffer ov...
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Internet Explorer (6/7/8) Remote Code Execution - Remote User Add Exploit

2010-03-04
Objective A malicious web site can be crafted using an exploit code that will allow IE (Internet Explorer) to be compromised and allow code to be executed on your computer. The more severe vulnerabili...
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Google Buzz and Reader CSRF Vulnerability

2010-02-26
Google recently launched a Twitter-like application called Google Buzz. We have established that the application is quite vulnerable to persistent CSRF attacks when data is pulled from external data f...
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