Social Engineering Attacks Prove Failure of User Education

BOSTON — A prominent security consultant is urging a rethink of the way businesses handle user education and awareness, warning that the way attackers have latched on to social engineering techniques makes it difficult to cope with hacker attacks. During a presentation at the SOURCE conference...

Microsoft Takes Aim at Malvertising Threat

Less than a week after a malicious advertising attack against the New York Times ad servers, Microsoft filed five civil lawsuits against companies allegedly using online advertising to serve malware. The lawsuits allege that individuals using the business names “Soft Solutions,” “Direct Ad,”...

Google to Address Malicious Ads at Virus Bulletin

There are security conferences, and then there is Virus Bulletin. While virtually all of the presentations are from researchers working at antimalware vendors and other security companies, the talks are quite technical and this year’s conference, which starts Wednesday in Geneva, Switzerland,...

Scareware pops up at FoxNews.com

From ZDNet Zero Day Dancho Danchev There have been numerous reports from affected users that a scareware fake anti-virus programs have been poping-up at FoxNews.com during the last couple of days, through a malvertising campaign. This most recent case of malvertising once again demonstrates that...