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Google quits censoring search in China
Google’s decision to stop censoring search results in China may lead the Chinese government to block access to its sites. Google on Monday announced it has stopped censoring search results in China. The announcement came amid speculation that the search giant would pull out of China entirely and sets up a showdown with the Communist…
Politics and malware make strange bedfellows
Sophos Labs: There are two stories that have been the focus of much speculation that have come to some closure today. New information confirming many peoples suspicions about Aurora and Stuxnet have been reported by Wikileaks.org and Reuters. As has been widely reported Wikileaks began releasing over 250,000 previously secret diplomatic cables that it is…
Zeus – Exploiting Spear Phishing to Spear Phish
The Zeus crimeware family has moved into new territory with its latest spam campaign – purporting to be a warning about targeted phishing attacks on “.gov” and “.mil” domains, by Zeus Trojans no less! In fact, one of the latest spam samples we’ve seen, duplicates the title and first three paragraphs of a blog entry by…
Facebook Board Member’s Account Hacked
Even Facebook board members are not immune to phishing attacks. On Saturday, Jim Breyer of Accel Partners became the latest victim when his account was used to send a spam message to more than 2,300 friends. The message in question (see below) came in the form of an event invitation reading, “Would You Like a…
Turkish FlashPlayer? no! It’s malware
I recently came across the file “FlashPlayer.exe” during the course of regular research. The file had been distributed with the file name FlashPlayer.exe and not surprisingly, when executed, it shows the following GUI, partly written in Turkish: Obviously, it’s disguised as an Adobe Flash Player 11 installer. Here is more info about the file: File…
Google Gets Sued by Photographers Over Google Books
.Google Books, although an admittedly noble project as Google has framed it, is also a beleaguered one. Attacked first by writers and publishers, the immense online library is now the subject of a lawsuit brought by several professional photographers’ organizations. The American Society of Media Photographers, one of these groups, issued a statement today saying,…