Facebook scammers use Amazon cloud to redirect victims

Facebook scammers have started redirecting victims through Amazon’s cloud in order to bypass malicious URL filters, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor F-Secure. One Facebook survey scam recently analysed by F-Secure uses malicious browser extensions to hijack Facebook accounts and post spam messages on their walls. The messages contain…

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Can Amazon Save Android From Malware Hell?

Print Version E-Mail Article Reprints By Richard AdhikariLinuxInsider Part of the ECT News Network 12/20/11 5:00 AM PT Google’s long insisted on taking a relatively open stance on Android and Android applications. That’s made Android a very popular platform — even among malware authors. Although Amazon uses Android in its…

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Amazon, eBay Differ on Sales Tax Plans

Amazon.com Inc. and eBay Inc. staked out opposing positions in testimonies before U.S. lawmakers on the issue of collecting sales tax from online purchases. The two largest e-commerce firms differ primarily on whether small businesses should be exempt from pending legislation that would require online retailers to collect taxes in…

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Amazon AWS attack demonstrated by researchers

Researchers from the Horst Goertz Institute of the Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany have demonstrated an account hijacking attack against Amazon Web Services that they believe affects other cloud computing products as well. The attack uses a technique, known at XML signature wrapping or XML rewriting, that has been known since…

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