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Twitter is beginning to filter out the dangerous link

August 8th, 2009 admin No comments

In the months of June and July we have emphasized the wave of attacks where the victim was Twitter, the first case Just (dot) ru and further Koobface.

In both cases the main feature was the spam on user profiles of links pointing to malicious sites containing malware.

Just to intervene in this direction, Twitter has started to filter the URLs classified as hazardous, as confirmed by Mikko Hypp

Symbian Foundation certifies accidentally a trojan

July 29th, 2009 admin No comments

taken over and focus to the Trend Micro on a rather disturbing error involving a few days ago F-Secure.

It is not yet known why, but Symbian Foundation has certified the Trojans SYMBOS_YXES.B ( “Sexy space”).

Typically the applications submitted to the Symbian team are evaluated through a series of tests, including an auto scan anti-virus products by F-Secure.

Mikko Hypp