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	<title>CounterMeasures -  A Security Blog</title>
	<link>http://countermeasures.trendmicro.eu</link>
	<description>Rik Ferguson blogs about current security issues.</description>
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		<title>Which browser is the most secure, is that the question?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past week I have been asked twice now for my opinion on the question &#8220;Which browser is the most secure?&#8221; Probably as a result of the release of Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;Browser Choice&#8221; update. In my view, this choice that people are being prompted to make is leading most of us to ask the wrong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cybercriminals research their own bad reputation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While the anti-malware industry is still working on agreeing standards for effective product testing, the criminals already know it&#8217;s no longer all about the files.
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A few years ago, criminals figured out that traditional anti-malware solutions could be overcome by a surge in the volume of malicious files. If malware code could be rolled often enough, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://countermeasures.trendmicro.eu/cybercriminals-research-their-own-bad-reputation/</link>
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		<title>Rogue Facebook app &#8220;Like&#8221; pushing Zwinky &amp; MyWebSearch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Initially I wasn&#8217;t going to blog about this, as I didn&#8217;t want to appear to be on a run of Facebook related posts. However this has been ongoing for over a week now, this same rogue app keeps reappearing, several of my own friends have fallen victim, so a warning seems like a good idea!
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The rogue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://countermeasures.trendmicro.eu/rogue-facebook-app-like-pushing-zwinky-mywebsearch/</link>
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		<title>All that glisters is not (Facebook) gold.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no Facebook Gold Account, but internet scammers would have you believe otherwise.
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Gold Membership Trolling has been doing the rounds for a few years now, it started in 2007 as a prank aimed at users of the 4chan image board. Bogus images were posted that supposedly only &#8220;Gold Members&#8221;  could view. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kneber for sale or rent (rooms to let 50 cents)*</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I realise I might be getting a reputation as the infosec curmudgeon, always ready with a bucket of cold water when the occasion demands, but once again I feel moved to write about hype.
&#8220;Seemingly there is no reason for these extraordinary intergalactical upsets. Only Dr Hans Zarkov formerly at NASA has provided any explanation&#8221;*
Stories in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polticians and scum-sucking pigs make uncomfortable bedfellows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In yet another example of the potential pitfalls of social networking in the workplace, a British MP for Telford and party whip is today at the centre of a storm over an offensive post on the micro-blogging site Twitter.
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Yesterday evening, the Twitter account of MP David Wright posted the message
&#8220;#ivenevervotedtory because you can put lipstick on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://countermeasures.trendmicro.eu/polticians-and-scum-sucking-pigs-make-uncomfortable-bedfellows/</link>
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		<title>Twitter.Grader.com hacked?</title>
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UPDATE: You will see in the comments on this post an update from HubSpot with a link to their blog explaining the incident, I know a lot of folks don&#8217;t read the comments, so here it is in full.
&#8220;We are very sorry for the mistake. It is completely our fault. As your article mentions, we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://countermeasures.trendmicro.eu/grader-com-hacked/</link>
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		<title>Cloud Control</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three quarters of UK CIOs see security as being the major barrier to cloud adoption and yet if you take a look at the Wikipedia (I know, I know) entry on cloud computing, “Security” is listed as one of the Key Characteristics of cloud-based services, how can this be?
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One of the reasons for this apparent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://countermeasures.trendmicro.eu/cloud-control/</link>
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		<title>Your guilty conscience could get you pwned</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just received an email from some guy called Willie Hickey. Aside form having an extremely amusing name, Mr. Hickey was offering me some very urgent advice:
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&#8220;Hey, some jerk has posted your pictures (u understand what kind of pictures are there) and sent a link of them to all ur friends. I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://countermeasures.trendmicro.eu/your-guilty-conscience-could-get-you-pwned/</link>
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		<title>French government to bid Adieu to online passwords?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The French newspaper 20minutes is reporting a French government initiative to do away with internet passwords.
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The French secretary of state responsible for the development of the digital economy, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, announced on Monday a scheme to issue internet users with a digital certificate which would allow them to prove their identity to any online service [...]]]></description>
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