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Talking malware and spam at the AVAR 2010 Conference, Bali

Talking malware and spam at the AVAR 2010 Conference, Bali

Rowland Yu of SophosLabs is a lucky chap. He was in Bali last week attending the Association of anti Virus Asia Researchers (AVAR) conference. Here he reports on what he saw and heard.

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Beware the Justin Bieber erection Facebook scam

Justin Bieber erection Facebook survey scam

Word up! A scam spreading on Facebook claims that Justin Bieber has had an embarrassing incident.

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Website exploit allows spam to be sent from Google.com (with real headers)

Website exploit allows spam to be sent from Google.com (with real headers)

A 21-year-old Armenian calling himself "Vahe G" has uncovered a way of sending spam to Gmail users, just by them visiting an exploited webpage.

Worse still, the spam messages come from Google's own servers.

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Jeremy Kyle is forced to step back after man starts headbutting Facebook scam

Jeremy Kyle Facebook survey scam

Another Facebook survey scam is spreading, posing as a video of a controversial British TV show.

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Adobe Reader X with sandboxing now available

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Adobe releases Adobe Reader X, complete with a sandbox, in an attempt to improve security.

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Is another company trying to register your domain?

Registration domain email scams

Have you received an email about an "urgent registration notice" for your company?

Spams about the need for your firm to register alternative domain names on the web are becoming more and more common.

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Lin Mun Poo arrested by Secret Service after Federal Reserve hack

Poo arrested by Secret Service

A Malaysian man said to have stolen 400,000 credit and debit card details has been arrested by the US Secret Service.

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Naked Security wins at Computer Weekly's blog awards

Naked Security wins top blog award

Naked Security attends the Computer Weekly's IT blog awards 2010 in London last night.

Find out how we did....

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Safari 5.0.3/4.1.3 fixes 27 vulnerabilities

Safari browser receives security patches

Apple releases security patches for its Safari browser, impacting Mac and Windows users.

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SHA-1 cracked for $2. Or a load of rubbish?

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We're into the back end of November, so you were probably thinking that nothing would have time to oust Stuxnet as computer security hyperbole of the year.

Seems you were wrong. The security news wires are abuzz with a new story.

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New password from Facebook? Beware widely spread malware attack

New password from Facebook? It's a malware attack

Have you received a message from Facebook saying that spam was sent from your account, and that they are supplying you with a new password? Be on your guard against the latest attack being spread by malicious hackers.

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Free anti-virus for Mac - 150,000 active users and plenty of malware found

Mac OS X malware chart

Think there's nothing for an anti-virus to find on your Mac? Think again.

Sophos reveals the most commonly encountered malware that users of Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition are seeing.

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Daughter meets father on Chat Roulette Facebook scam - explained in diagram form

Daughter meets father on Chat Roulette Facebook scam

With the help of his trusty pink crayon, Sophos's Graham Cluley explains the latest viral scam spreading on the Facebook social network.

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Sophos Security Chet Chats 33 and 34

Sophos Security Chet Chat 41

In Chet Chats 33 and 34 Chet and Michael Argast discuss Mobile phone flaws, the latest zero days, the Boonana trojan, Google buying vulnerabilities and much more. Plus an interview with Chet from National Public Radio.

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Scareware SEO attack exploits engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton

Scareware SEO attack exploits engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton

Prince William and Kate Middleton announce their royal engagement - but who's that waiting in the wings? Hackers poison search engine results to spread their fake anti-virus attacks.

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Confused by Adobe? There's a security update in there somewhere!

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If you've been following Adobe news this week, you're probably as confused as I am.

The big news is that Adobe Acrobat X is out. But what else do you need to know?

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Bug causes havoc on Facebook as accounts are disabled

Havoc on Facebook as accounts disabled

Many female users of Facebook have reported having their accounts disabled. The reason? Code designed to weed out inauthentic profiles on the social network got a little too enthusiastic.

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Free Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac review by About.com

About.com reviews Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition

About.com awards Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition top marks for protecting against malware.

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Is a Facebook security hole helping hackers spread iPhone 4 spam?

iPhone 4 spam spread via Facebook

Apple isn't giving away 1000 iPhones, but a security problem at Facebook might be allowing hackers to post messages to users' walls withouit their permission.

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FAQ: Security and Facebook's new messages system

Facebook messages security FAQ

What you need to know about Facebook's new message system - it's not email as we know it, but it could still suffer from spam and malware.

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