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Will Twitter send you an e-mail to change your password? Yes (WTF!)
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/will-twitter-send-you-and-e-mail-to-change-your-password-yes-wtf/
I’m really sorry. Please, forgive me, I really didn’t want to lie to you, but I did Today Olaiz has published the blog post “Since when Facebook changes your password?” and I suggested her to include the following sentence to end the article:By the way, this advice is valid for any online service: social [...]
Thu, 29 Apr 10
Since when Facebook changes your password?
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/since-when-facebook-changes-your-password/
Cybercrooks not only use social networks to distribute malware but also as a bait in social engineering.Facebook is one of the most popular social networks with more than 400 million users, so it’s not surprise that cybercrooks often use it in one way or another to carry out malicious actions.In the last hours we’ve detected [...]
Wed, 21 Apr 10
Macs won’t be affected by Icelandic volcano ashes
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/macs-wont-be-affected-by-icelandic-volcano-ashes/
I want to share with you some of the findings that Asier Martinez and I made yesterday while investigating the BHSEO attack on the Icelandic Volcano and all the flight mess in Europe. As I explained yesterday, when you click one of the malicious links from the search result, you’ll get to the rogueware site. [...]
Tue, 20 Apr 10
Volcanos, Ashes and Malware
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/volcanos-ashes-and-malware/
When the volcano Eyjafjallajökull erupted causing a chaos in the air traffic, on the one hand I remembered all my colleagues who were in Barcelona at the BlackHat Europe (many of them are still there thanks to the volcano…) and on the other I thought about the typical attacks we see everyday using the search [...]
Tue, 20 Apr 10
Internet and Social Networks: dangerous… for criminals
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/internet-and-social-networks-dangerous%e2%80%a6-for-criminals/
I know that Christmas is far away, but today I feel like making a wish to try to make a better world:Dear criminals,I want you to use social networks and publish there all your personal information.Best regards,Luis Will they pay attention to me? Actually, some of them read my blog or follow me on Twitter, [...]
Sat, 17 Apr 10
New blog features
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/new-blog-features/
We’ve added two new features to the PandaLabs blog which will help us share PandaLabs research with our viewers in a couple of new ways.You can now subscribe to our blog posts via e-mail by entering your e-mail address in box in the upper right corner of the blog.In addition, you can also choose to [...]
Wed, 14 Apr 10
Sex, lies & spam
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/sex-lies-spam/
I have to admit that even though spam is a waste of time, sometimes it’s really funny to see all those messages in my inbox recommending to enlarge my penis or to buy cheap viagra, and so on -how the hell they find out my needs?!?! But the true is that lately my inbox [...]
Tue, 13 Apr 10
YouTube? no, Just a Tube
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/youtube-no-just-a-tube/
It seems that YouTube has plenty of imitators… It’s not the first time we see websites that try to pass themselves off as this successful site with malicious intentions.In this case, we’ve come across a website called Just a Tube, which has a very similar appearance with the legitimate website:However, unlike the real YouTube in [...]
Tue, 13 Apr 10
Barcelona vs. Real Madrid Black Hat SEO attack
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/barcelona-vs-real-madrid-black-hat-seo-attack/
Of course I’m talking about football. When I say football I mean the game that is played with one ball thas is kicked with the foot, not the other game that is known as football in the US even though it’s played using the hands Anyway I don’t like football at all, it’s too [...]
Thu, 1 Apr 10
Social engineering, PDFs and banking Trojans
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/social-engineering-pdfs-and-banking-trojans/
A few days ago our colleague Oscar received an email inviting him to access a Web page by clicking on a link. This is not new. However, on clicking on the link, the following page was displayed (don’t try this at home, kids ):As you can see, the page includes a download window [...]