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MARCH 22ND, 2010
By TEAM REGISTER
Marketing agency gets up to mischief
Sophos has apologised after a third-party marketing agency hired by the anti-virus and anti-spam specialist sprayed link spam on the blog of security expert Gunter Ollmann.…
Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work
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MARCH 19TH, 2010
By TEAM REGISTER
Ignored Oz opt-outs
Virgin Mobile has been fined for sending spam messages to Australian mobile users who’d already opted out of receiving promotions.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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MARCH 4TH, 2010
By TEAM REGISTER
We don’t need no stinking exploits
Security penetration testers Mike Bailey and Mike Murray rely plenty on attacks that exploit weaknesses in websites and servers, but their approach is better summed up by the famous phrase “There’s a sucker born every minute”.…
Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work
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MARCH 2ND, 2010
By TEAM REGISTER
Hive minds vs bot herders
Innovations in botnet technology threaten the usefulness of honeypots, one of the main ways to study how bot herders control networks of zombie PCs.…
Offloading malware protection to the cloud