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Fake Email of the Federal Police of Brazil (Computer crimes investigation unit)

Posted by Xabier Francisco at  18 November 08 06:19     This fake email seems to be sent from the Computer crimes investigation unit of the Brazilian federal police department. It pretends to frighten users by accussing them of having accessed to ilegal websites from their computer and entices them to view

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Facebook and MySpace's worm

Posted by Oscar Cavada at  10 November 08 04:29     PandaLabs has recently detected a new variant of the Boface family that affects the social networks Facebook and MySpace. In this case, the worm sends all the user's friends a message which contains a link to a supposed YouTube video. In order to

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Barack Obama's Spam & Malware Campaign

Posted by Xabier Francisco at  06 November 08 12:45     Shortly after having known the results of the US presidencial elections, the cyber-crooks have used this topic to distribute malware in spam messages. One of these malicious emails seems to be sent from an online newspaper from Peru. Its content is in

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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Posted by Luis Corrons at  14 October 08 05:41     During the last months I’ve been asked the same question almost every day: why are there so many rogueware infections? We have already published some data in the blog, as well as in the 2008 Q3 Report. The number of infections are somehow relevant:

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Why Companies Should Invest in Cloud Computing

Posted by Ryan Sherstobitoff at  25 September 08 07:46     Recently I have been getting a number of questions concerning the cost savings of a security-as-a-service (SaaS) model versus a traditional on-premise solution. While there are certainly a number of direct benefits to the end-user (easier to use and upgrades

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