Tag: phishing

  • First OS X trojan spotted – no need to panic just yet!

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    Tom Raftery
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    There is a great deal of chatter on TechMeme this morning because a trojan has emerged which infects Apple’s OS X! The trojan is found in pornographic sites masquerading as a video codec. It isn’t a huge threat because to become infected you need to go through several steps: When the users arrive on one…

  • Google launches phishing blacklist api

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    Tom Raftery
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    I see on the Google Security Blog that Google have launched a Safe Browsing api.  In other words, Google are making available its dynamic blacklist of phishing and malware sites so ISPs and web app coders can check against it. This should help ensure unwitting users are notified before they browse to to unsafe sites…

  • OpenDNS speeds up my feed reader

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    Tom Raftery
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    When you see something new being lauded by Matt Mullenweg (of WordPress fame), Kevin Burton (of TailRank) and Chris Pirillo (of GnomeDex fame) you sit up and take notice. In this case they are talking up a new service called OpenDNS. OpenDNS is a very simple idea – it is a centralised series of DNS…