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Aug 14


Posted by Donald Tabone

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Aug 13

This is definately a facelift that Gmail needed.  Check this one out:

Continue reading "Google goes 'Dark Knight' style"

Posted by Giannella De Leonardo

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Aug 1
What would you do if you saw the following Google Adword?

“Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!”

This Ad was displayed 259,723 times and clicked on 409 times. That’s a click-through-rate of 0.16%. Would you consider this to be bad? The campaign's costs summed up to a miserable $23 (€17).

Thankfully this ad was created for statistical purposes not with malicious intent.

Didier Stevens wanted to test how easy it is to lure users in clicking on a drive-by download.  To make things easier for the average user, Didier used an evident malicious phrase and still users clicked away.


Continue reading "“Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!”"

Posted by Giannella De Leonardo

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