by Alex Eckelberry | Sep 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
Just a quick heads up that there’s a Twitter spamrun targeting mentions of the videogame Bioshock Infinite.The promise: “My friend got Bioshock Infinite free”. Click to EnlargeThe reality:Click to EnlargeA woman doing aeroplane impressions. Of...
by Alex Eckelberry | Sep 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
We’re seeing some more bad adverts popping up in Bing – just like the original attack, these results are served with very basic search terms so it’s pretty easy to stumble into one of the bad URLs. The results below appear when searching for...
by Alex Eckelberry | Sep 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
In-game advertising has been around for a long time (specifically since 1978, when the Scott Adams game ‘Adventureland’ placed a promotional message in the game for his next release ‘Pirate Adventure’, which involved crackers, a parrot and...
by Alex Eckelberry | Sep 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
Overnight we saw a number of adverts being displayed in Bing that were directing end-users to malicious content. These adverts were promoting all manner of downloads including Firefox, Skype and uTorrent.Some of the search terms used:”FireFox...
by Alex Eckelberry | Sep 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
I keep getting asked for comments on McAfee/Intel’s new Deepsafe. So what the heck, here goes. This is a great marketing pitch. But remember that the platform that the technology is based upon, Intel VTx, is an open archictecture that any antivirus company can...
