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Trend Micro Titanium and Some Other Giveaways

July 23rd, 2010
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Update 2010.07.27
This event/giveaway is officially closed.

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Update 2010.07.26

This deadline of submission of test scripts is today 7/26 (GMT+8), so this promo will end soon.

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Titanium is Trend Micro’s next generation desktop security product that uses the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network and it will be launched very soon. Trend Micro Titanium’s key features includes:

  • Speed and Performance –

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FakeAV and the AV Security Suite Removal

June 9th, 2010

FakeAV, Rogue AV, Rogue Antivirus, Fake Antivirus, Rogue Security Software, Scareware.

Different Security Vendors call them by different names. Simply put, these FAKEAV’s are malicious programs and software packages that mislead users by mimicking legitimate antivirus (AV) programs and giving false warnings (that the machine/ PC that they are using are infected by malware, viruses, spyware and lots of other bad stuffs)… Read the rest of this entry »

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Hayley Williams Twitpic Scandal Pics

May 28th, 2010

Hayley Nicole Williams is the lead vocalist of the band Paramore. I’ve heard obscure stories and reports that she lost her phone and/or her twitter account was hacked recently and as a result some scandalous pics of Hayley Williams was posted in twitter and twitpic and is now available the Internet. I also read some blog articles that the “hack” was a staged one and this was just done as… Read the rest of this entry »

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Menardconnect.com, SiteAdvisor and a User Review

May 26th, 2010

I got some notification that SiteAdvisor, Mcafee’s website safety reporting services have a rating for my blog.

Ok the rating for menardconnect.com is check and green, which means that this site is safe to browse.

SiteAdvisor also noted that I have online affiliation with Nuffnang PH

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Moscow Subway Explosion leaves 37 dead and hundreds injured

March 29th, 2010

It was reported that female suicide bombers attacked Moscow Subway during the rush hour Monday morning, March 29, 2010.

The first explosion occurred about at Lubyanka subway station near Central Moscow while a second explosion rocked the Park Kultury station some 30 to 45 minutes later. The Lubyanka station is near the Kremlin and is the station nearest to the office of the Federal Security Service (FSB) Russia’s intelligence… Read the rest of this entry »

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RSA 2010: Roll Out Some Encryption (Walk Like an Egyptian)

March 5th, 2010

Roll out Some Encryption is a song number played at the opening day keynote session of the RSA 2010 Conference. The song was played by the band Live Wire at the event venue (Moscone Center) as well as in the Codebreakers Bash in San Francisco City Hall. As RSA conference’s theme for this year is the Rosseta Stone, hieroglyphics and Egypt, the lyrics of the song “Walk Like an Egyptian”… Read the rest of this entry »

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RSA 2010 Insights and Some Random Pics

March 4th, 2010
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Everybody here in RSA 2010 are talking about the Cloud and Cloud Security!!! Whooah! I’m very glad that my company (Trend Micro)  have a good head-start on this topic!!! (trying to relive my FUNtastic skit adlibs)

I would like to share some random pics I shot In the RSA 2010 Conference here at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. I will make it six random pics in the… Read the rest of this entry »

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Phishing Attack Targets Zynga-Mafia Wars and Cafe World Developer

February 19th, 2010

Zynga is the developer of the popular games in Facebook (Cafe World, Mafia Wars, Petville, Fishville, FarmVille, Zynga poker and YoVille to name a few). And it seems that they and their forum users are the target of bad guys via this phishing email reported by Vitalsecurity.org

Here is a sample image of the phishing mail

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Update to Adobe 9.3

January 13th, 2010
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It’s been a while since I last posted a tech and security related  post. So let me start the year by posting this useful note.

I got some notification that an Adobe update is available on their website. I remembered from the malware blog entry that they (Adobe) have an unpatched 0-day being used by an in-the-wild malware so I checked their website as well the their PSIRT… Read the rest of this entry »

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My Malware Blog Post: Spoofed Trend Micro Email Leads to Phishing Site

November 28th, 2009
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Note: The article below was published in TrendLabs Malware Blog on November 23, 2009.

Spoofed Trend Micro Email Leads to Phishing Site
by Menard Osena (Solutions Product Manager)

Trend Micro threat analysts recently unearthed spammed messages that purported to have come from Trend Micro. Targeting trusted organizations is not an uncommon technique, used by cybercriminals when carrying out spam campaigns.  In this case, the malicious… Read the rest of this entry »

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