Archive for February, 2008
Report: Web browsers under siege from organised crime
BM today released the findings of the 2007 X-Force Security report, detailing a disturbing rise in the sophistication of attacks by criminals on Web browsers worldwide. According to IBM, by attacking the browsers of computer users, cybercriminals are now stealing the identities and controlling the computers of consumers at a rate never before seen on […]
Flash Attack Could Take Over Your Router
The code, published over the weekend by researchers Adrian Pastor and Petko Petkov, exploits features in two technologies: The Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol, which is used by many operating systems to make it easier for them to work with devices on a network; and Adobe Systems’ Flash multimedia software.
By tricking a victim into […]
Expedia.com, Rhapsody.com serving up malicious code
Legitimate Web sites are increasingly becoming unwitting sources of malware. Security experts report that Expedia.com and Rhapsody.com today have been serving up banner ads that attempt to get visitors to download fake antispyware, while embassy Web sites in Ukraine and Russia have also been spewing out attack code this week.
“Expedia and Rhapsody are both serving […]
Click Fraud: A Double Threat
How can advertisers actually begin to help networks stamp out the problems of click fraud? The CEO of ClickFacts shares his answers.
In recent months click fraud has taken an insidious turn, expanding from a marketer’s nightmare to one that threatens anyone unlucky enough to click on the wrong search ad or land on a compromised […]
