How many of us when reading an apparently valid link in an email would bother to check whether the link is actually valid or whether instead it takes you to a malicious site.

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Dinaburg admits that at the moment bitsquatting, the act of hosting malicious content at site one bit flip away, is not yet a pervasive problem.

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When Distil identifies a malicious bot on one site, it creates a blacklisted behavioral profile that is deployed to all its customers.

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When the latest version of Mozilla's Firefox was released in June, bugs that allowed a site to install malicious programs on a visitor's computer were reported to security vendor Tipping Point within hours.

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Beware emails that purport to be from LivingSocial that are actually from malicious parties seeking to take advantage of known customers of the site.

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