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Be Very Sparing in Allowing Site Notifications

Krebs on Security

And almost invariably, those messages include misleading notifications about security risks on the user’s system, prompts to install other software, ads for dating sites, erectile disfunction medications, and dubious investment opportunities. One notification was an ad for Norton antivirus; the other was for McAfee.

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‘The Manipulaters’ Improve Phishing, Still Fail at Opsec

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The term “FUD” in those names stands for “ F ully U n- D etectable,” and it refers to cybercrime resources that will evade detection by security tools like antivirus software or anti-spam appliances. Given the risk for abuse, this domain will not be published.”

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

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These two software are currently unknown to most if not all antivirus companies.” Highlighting the risk that 911 nodes could pose to internal corporate networks, they observed that “the infection of a node enables the 911.re The Exe Clean service made malware look like goodware to antivirus products.

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‘Spam Nation’ Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud

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ChronoPay specializes in providing access to the global credit card networks for “high risk” merchants — businesses involved in selling services online that tend to generate an unusually large number of chargebacks and reports of fraud, and hence have a higher risk of failure. Click to enlarge.

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