Jan 31
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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Jan 30
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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Jan 30
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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