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Moscone Center in San Francisco (California), the same convention center where Google or Intel hold their events, welcomed around 5,000 developers between June 8th and 12th. All attended Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Cupertino’s company officials revealed some of the features of the brand’s new operating systems, which are already available in their beta […]

A Month Without Adobe Flash Player
June 23, 2015

I’ve spent the better part of the last month running a little experiment to see how much I would miss Adobe‘s buggy and insecure Flash Player software if I removed it from my systems altogether. Turns out, not so much. Browser plugins are favorite targets for malware and miscreants because they are generally full of unpatched or […]

Netflix, Hulu and a host of other content streaming services block non-U.S. users from viewing their content. As a result, many people residing in or traveling outside of the United States seek to circumvent such restrictions by using services that advertise “free” and “open” Web proxies capable of routing browser traffic through U.S.-based computers and networks. Perhaps […]

For a long time the Winnti group had been considered as a Chinese threat actor targeting gaming companies specifically. Recently, we’ve seen information indicating that the scope of targets can be wider and is no longer limited to the entertainment business. We actually track samples of Winnti malware all the time, but so far we haven’t […]

Poweliks Trojan
June 22, 2015

On the subject of malware, there is a new one in town. Well, not exactly new as it was first discovered in August 2014. What is new is that it is now being used in conjunction with ransomware to target consumers.   Poweliks is emerging as an adware (see Definition) click-fraud that is distributed via […]