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Facebook's "Secret Crush" malicious widget tricks users

2008-01-03 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Facebook "Secret Crush" malicious widget tricks users into downloading adware, according to Fortinet IT Audit Checklists Advertisement Prepare for your next internal IT audit. Checklists cover security, risk management, PCI, and more
 
Tags: secret crush, audit, checklists cover security, audit checklists, risk management, facebook, advertisement, pci, fortinet
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Big Brother Fi; Eugene (Ore.); Milpitas (Calif.); XP Net Monitor

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2008-04-24 13:54:32 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...widget: The free Yahoo widget shows current Wi-Fi area status in a kind of radar sweeping method, and provides a popup with full details about all nearby networks and their access points. The widget was previously release as a Vista gadget. (Gads, I can't believe I just had to write that sentence. I suppose next, it will be a Windows Me...
 
Tags: access, free wi-fi access, windows, xirrus releases windows, widget, free yahoo widget, public access, city hall, city
 
 
 
 
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Zango's in your Face(book)

2008-01-03 21:23:00 by Russ McRee in HolisticInfoSec.org
 
...Widget. Fortinet, who discovered the issue, discusses the "Secret Crush" widget at length, so no need to repeat their extensive effort Instead, I'd like to offer a bit of analysis, then invoke a debate ANALYSIS I ran Setup.exe, as found in hxxp://static.zangocash.com/Setup/46/Zango/Setup.exe, through the analysis mill and I think the...
 
Tags: 41996b regopenkeyexa, hkey local, hkey local machinesoftware, zango, software installation programs, software, software installation, user knowingly installs, analysis
 
 
 
 
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Layered Security: Solving the Cube

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2008-05-04 01:06:31 by JJ in Security Uncorked
...Widget A for a certain solution that Widget A is not designed to fix. I deal with it daily and I blame (for the most part) vendors for mis-advertising their product as a fix-all. Whether its hardware or software- know what each piece of your security solution is designed to do, what its actually doing, and keep that information documented....
 
Tags: security, email security, security products, security solutions, solution, solution does-, security fundamentals, security solution, basic security functions
 
 
 
 
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Event Tracking Google Style

2008-07-22 19:46:05 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...widget or an audio player. In the old GA,webbies could track event-data as a pageview. However, becauseevent trackingusing crude pageviews is not very effective,GAaddednew functionality they refer to as Event Tracking There are 4 components in the GA events data model; Objects , Actions , Labels and Values . GA Objects are areas of web pages...
 
Tags: event, data model, events data model, track event-data, complex event, google, single event objects, model, objects
 
 
 
 
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Facebook 'Secret Crush' not our fault, Zango CEO says

2008-01-09 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
The Facebook 'Secret Crush' widget which has tricked millions of Facebook users into downloading spyware was not our idea, Zango CEO Keith Smith says
 
Tags: facebook, secret crush, facebook users, millions, spyware, idea, widget
 
 
 
 
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New Template - Don't Get Scared....

2008-03-11 02:04:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
Just trying different layouts; the old one got a bit stale and too "widget-heavy Some say - please don't laugh! - that it crashed IE7 About me: http://www.chuvakin.org
 
Tags: bit stale, widget-heavy, org, ie7, laugh, chuvakin, layouts
 
 
 
 
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Why making health records public is not a great idea

2008-05-20 07:21:10 by HASH0x8911db8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...widget for his blog with his health profile. Many people wrote to Fred telling him why Google does not do this. Many of them centered on the fact that insurance companies would use this information against you to deny or limit your coverage. Some took shots at Fred's socio-economic status saying that he didn't care if the insurance companies...
 
Tags: health, health records public, public, fred, fred wilson, records, health profile, fred feels, google health service
 
 
 
 
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IT Vendor VAR Relationships 101

2008-05-31 20:52:07 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
...widget.? On the other hand, if you call in a trusted Reseller or VAR , they have a more vested interest in your success, and the success of whatever solution is put in place because theyre responsible for making sure it all works Another distinct advantage of a good Reseller/VAR -> Customer relationship is the ability to leverage your...
 
Tags: manufacturer, manufacturer directly, manufacturer partners, specific, specific product line, manufacturer sales rep, reseller, manufacturer relationship, resellers relationship
 
 
 
 
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