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Jon Oliver

Senior Architect

Investigating Twitter Abuse, Part 3

  • Posted on:October 14, 2014
  • Posted in:Social, Spam
  • Posted by:
    Jon Oliver (Senior Architect)
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In the two previous parts of this series of blog posts, we discussed the kinds of threats that we’re seeing on Twitter, as well as the scope and scale of these threats. In this part, we will discuss their motivations, and what end users can do. The first question is: why do cybercriminals bother doing…

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Tags: BotMakerphishingsocial mediaSpamTwittertwo-factor authentication

Investigating Twitter Abuse, Part 2

  • Posted on:October 1, 2014
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Social
  • Posted by:
    Jon Oliver (Senior Architect)
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In the previous blog post of this series, I introduced our paper titled  An In-Depth Analysis of Abuse on Twitter  that looked at the threats in the Twitter landscape, and explained the various kinds of malicious tweets we’ve seen. In this post, we look at the scope and scale of these threats. Malware Tweets Users in the…

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Tags: malicious tweetsphishingsocial mediasocial networking threatsTwitter

Investigating Twitter Abuse, Part 1

  • Posted on:October 1, 2014
  • Posted in:Social
  • Posted by:
    Jon Oliver (Senior Architect)
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Twitter is an important means of communication for many people, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that it has become a medium that is exploited by cybercriminals as well. Together with researchers from Deakin University, we have released an in-depth paper titled An In-Depth Analysis of Abuse on Twitter that looks at the scale of this…

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Tags: follower scamMalwarephishingsocial mediaSpamTwitter

Phone Phishing, Data Breaches, and Banking Scams

  • Posted on:March 4, 2014
  • Posted in:Social
  • Posted by:
    Jon Oliver (Senior Architect)
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Recently, I received a rather unusual call that claimed to be from National Australia Bank (NAB), one of the four largest banks in Australia. The caller had my complete name and my address. They claimed that they had flagged a suspicious transaction from my account to an Alex Smith in New Zealand to the tune…

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Tags: banking malwaredata breachphone phishing

Changes to Gmail’s Image Display Defaults May Change Your Privacy

  • Posted on:December 18, 2013
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Posted by:
    Jon Oliver (Senior Architect)
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Recently Google announced that it had changed its policy dealing with images in email. In a blog post on the official Gmail blog, Google said: [You’ll] soon see all images displayed in your messages automatically across desktop, iOS and Android. Instead of serving images directly from their original external host servers, Gmail will now serve…

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Tags: emailGmailGoogleimagesSpamweb bugs
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