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by Righard Zwienenberg Senior Research Fellow
April 17, 2012 at 7:30 am

Phishers always try to find new ways to bypass security features and trick ‘educated’ users. Over the years we have seen simplistic phishing attempts where the required information had to be typed into the e-mail body. This worked at that time because phishing was new and hardly anyone had a notion of the implications. Later, … Read More…

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by David Harley Senior Research Fellow
September 30, 2010 at 9:12 am

[Josep Albors of ESET Ontinet.com tells us about a file attachment that was neither as boring nor as harmless as it seemed. Errors in interpretation or translation from the original blog are down to DH]
When we speak of files that can infect our system, most of us still think only in terms of executable files. Unfortunately, sometimes … Read More…

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