Archive for January, 2008

Rogue ads infiltrate Excite and Rhapsody

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

When legit sites attack
Excite.com and Rhapsody.com are the latest name-brand websites to be found serving advertisements that try to install malware onto users’ machines, security researchers said. The sites join a Rogue’s Gallery of mainstream destinations that include MySpace, Excite, Blick, and CNN.com, which all have been caught carrying tainted ads over the past few months.…

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Spammers dive into Google’s lucky dip

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Feeling phished?
Google’s “I’m feeling lucky” button was designed to save web searchers time by automatically opening the first page of a query. It turns out the feature, and similar ones from other search engines, are increasingly helping junk mailers get around anti-spam products.…

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Skype Trojan wiretap plan leaks onto the net

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

We have ways of hearing you talk
German cops are pushing ahead with controversial plans, yet to be legally approved, to develop “remote forensic software” - in other words, a law enforcement Trojan.…

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