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Malicious Web Attack Using Executable With facebook.com in Name

By Paula Greve at 11 March, 2010, 9:20 am

As we were working through URLs identified as suspicious due to our GTI technology, one of the URLs that presented itself was an average “.com” site that loaded a php. As we processed this – it was interesting to see that this php actually reached out to download a file that ended with the string [...]

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Michael Jackson News Affects Web Traffic

By Paula Greve at 26 June, 2009, 2:58 pm

The announcement of Michael Jackson’s death has caused immediate effects on the Web 2.0 world. The impact ranged from the interruption on Facebook of coverage of Farrah Fawcett’s death to a surge experienced by Twitter. The Web 2.0 world is definitely abuzz with traffic regarding his passing.
Within hours the percentage of “long-tail” URL traffic associated with [...]

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