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This paper discusses the security implications of Mach being integrated with the Mac OS X kernel. A few examples are used to illustrate how Mach support can be used to bypass some of the BSD security features, ... read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 665 days ago
Via: http://securitylabs.websense.com | Tags: spammers abusing googles web services comments Discuss  
Web 2.0 aims to enhance user creativity, information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the Web. These features enable social networking, video sharing, blogs, Web publishing, plus other popular methods of information and content creation, editing, sharing and distribution. This power is being abused by spammers and malware authors to carry out various attacks, which pose a threat to Web 2.0 functionality. read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 642 days ago
Via: http://securitylabs.websense.com | Tags: spammers abusing microsoft services comments Discuss  
Spammers' efforts to reach their prospective customers continue today with increased creativity and complexity. From a spammer's perspective, it is a challenge to figure out the ways to defeat security mechanisms that are being used and constantly improved by service providers to combat abuse of their services. This is clearly a long-term battle between service providers and spammers which we have been aware of for quite some time. read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 381 days ago
Via: http://feeds.voices.washingtonpost.com | Tags: spammers virus writers abusing url shortening services comments Discuss  
Purveyors of spam and malicious software are taking full advantage of URL-shortening services like bit.ly and TinyURL in a bid to trick unwary users into clicking on links to dodgy and dangerous Web sites. Fortunately, with the help of a couple of tools and some common sense, most Internet users can avoid these scams altogether. According to alerts from anti-virus vendors McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro, the latest to abuse these services is the Koobface worm, which targets users of social networking site read more »
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