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The original video can be found at Attackers Use Fake Friends to Blend into Facebook
Read More...By Paul Royal, Research Consultant
Amnesty International’s UK website has been compromised and is serving drive-by downloads. Historical data indicates the website AIUK was compromised on or before Friday, December 16.
Details:
Visiting hxxp://www[.]amnesty[.]org[.]uk loads hxxp://3max[.]com[.]br/cgi-bin/ai/ai.html via an iframe. 3max.com.br, which itself is a legitimate but compromised Brazilian automotive website, loads malicious Java content (stolen from the Metasploit project), which targets CVE-2011-3544. If the exploit is successful, malware is installed on the visitor’s system.
Details of Vulnerability Targeted by the Exploit
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-3544
VirusTotal Detections for Exploit
http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=1cc214cee10f02d37359c0e3d04fd57899333c4b1eaa81489c74e5c2fa17c3a8-1324068153
VirusTotal Detections for Exploit Payload
http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=0e53832e1c36d34a3d05c05f73ebab22a74ade95c5f3b7d9f74fad4f56d10023-1324067892
by Dave Michmerhuizen & Luis Chapetti – Security Researchers
Here’s something we hear regularly at Barracuda Labs…
“My mom called me and said that someone posted something bad on her facebook. How did they do that? What should I tell her?”
Our two-part answer is simple. First, mom probably clicked on something and unwittingly gave it permission to post to her wall. Second, there is always a possibility that mom had her password stolen. She should change her Facebook password at once, as well as change the password on any service where she might have used that same password.
Read More...by Daniel Peck, Research Scientist
The question sounds crazy, especially for someone who’s spent a fair amount of the last year working on making spam and other malicious message detection on social networks better. But we do a disservice to tools geared for protection when we don’t think long term about the consequences of them. Does better spam detection on say twitter for example reduce the total amount of spam that users see, or does it just change the signal to noise ratio?
Read More...by Daniel Peck, Research Scientist
The Facebook data team put out some interesting data a few days ago focusing on the connectedness of their social graph, taking six degrees of Kevin Bacon and looking at how many connections away from each any two people on the network are. From their research it seems like more than 90% of people on the network are seperated by only 4 degrees, meaning that any person A has a friend that knows a friend of Person B.
Read More...by Dave Michmerhuizen & Luis Chapetti – Security Researchers
The Barracuda Labs spam traps recently received a burst of phishing emails targeting Bank of America customers. These particularly well-crafted messages underscore two important rules when dealing with spam.
Rule # 1: Never click on a link in an email, no matter how authentic it might appear.
Rule # 2: If a dialog asks you if you want to RUN something, don’t.
Many people think they can effectively spot spam by looking for the tell-tale clues such as poor grammar or misspellings. Modern spam campaigns render this approach ineffective.
Read More...By: Barracuda Labs
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Content Security Leader Challenges World with “Clicks for Meals” to Fight Hunger and Provide 10,000 Meals this Holiday Season
Campbell, Calif. (November 30, 2011) – In an effort to combat world hunger, Barracuda Networks is challenging the world to help provide 10,000 meals for hungry children this holiday season. From November 30 until December 31, Barracuda Networks’ new one-for-one campaign−outlined at www.barracuda.com/clicksformeals−offers three free, simple ways everyone can help donate meals to starving children around the world.
Barracuda Networks will provide one meal for each of the following:
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The original video can be found at Sharing & Streaming Your Personal Content Is Easy
Read More...This week Facebook experienced a rash of attacks that posted pornographic images. Some even claimed to be nude celebrities and others claimed to be child pornography. Last month we released survey results that showed that 40% of Facebook users do not feel safe on Facebook. Two weeks later, Facebook released an infographic showing its security initiatives and statistics. We applaud the efforts; however, more is needed. When you are trying to grow a social network as well as increase advertising revenue, security becomes not only a lower priority but sometimes a conflict of interest.
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