by Alex Eckelberry | Sep 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Microsoft has filed civil suits in King County Superior Court in Seattle against businesses believed to be responsible for placing advertising that hides malware – sometimes called “malvertising.”The court action was brought against: “Soft Solutions,” “Direct Ad,”...
by Alex Eckelberry | Sep 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Researchers at RSA security research group said they’ve discovered a “Chat-in-the-middle” phishing attack in which a thief uses a chat channel to extract banking Web site security information from victims. Bank customers are lured into entering their usernames...
by Alex Eckelberry | Sep 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
The Internet Engineering Task Force has released a draft of its document “Recommendations for the Remediation of Bots in ISP Networks” (Text here.)This is one of those important routine things with the potential to fix a big problem that nobody is really...
by Alex Eckelberry | Sep 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
Celebrity + public misbehavior = hours of Internet crazinessThere is probably no one ANYWHERE on planet Earth who has not heard about Kanye West’s interruption of Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for Best Female Video at the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony Saturday...
by Alex Eckelberry | Sep 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
When Windows 7 arrives Oct. 22, it will have AutoPlay disabled on USB devices. AutoPlay has been disabled in the Win7 beta version for some time, but Microsoft just posted information about disabling it in Windows XP and Vista.Microsoft support page here.The Conficker...
