Social Engineering Driven Web Malware Exploitation Kit

The standardization through template-ization of bogus codec/flash player/video pages , taking place during the past two years, has exponentially increased the efficiency levels of malware campaigns relying exclusively on social engineering . Just like phishing pages being commodity , these commodity spoofs of legitimate software/plugins relying on "visual social engineering" represent a market segment by themselves, one that some cybercriminals have been attempting to monetize for a w
Publication date: 2009-07-31

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Xbox 360 | Dark Void due in 2010, 2 million sales targeted

Capcom confirms its sci-fi PC, PS3, and 360 action game has slipped out of the increasingly sparse holiday season; publisher predicts game will go double-platinum its first year. Dark Void has joined the 2009 Dropouts
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Trip Report: Is Disneyland BBQ a good deal?

This trip report takes a look at Disney menu price changes, construction updates, and more.  Click on the photos for larger images. California Adventure continues to change as it undergoes its $1 billion expansion . The Blue Sky Cellar , a lounge located near Paradise Pier designed to give park guests a feel for what is to come in the expansion, was recently updated with new concept art, models and video. Though the additions to the cellar are predominately focused on the World of Color
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Flash Player to take over

I just saw an interesting post over on Twitter that talks about how Flash will take over the mobile gaming space.  Paolo Munoz suggests that with our current position for gaming on the web, that Flash on devices should become a natural progression for the platform. There are some interesting points, some of which are good like the Facebook applications/games strategy.  Yet some points are assumptions and not well understood, and so that
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