Sweden Hit With Huge Increase in Malicious Redirect Scripts, Infections

Sweden has suffered from a barrage of malware over the last two months and saw a 3700% increase in JavaScript-based redirection scripts in September alone, according to a recent post on Securelist by Kaspersky Lab’s David Jacoby. Jacoby, a Senior Security Researcher for Kaspersky’s Global Researc...

Google Adds Flash Sandbox to Chrome Browser

Two weeks after releasing Reader X with its new sandbox security mechanism, Adobe has teamed up with Google to enable a sandboxed version of its Flash software to run in Google Chrome. The two companies said on Wednesday that Google has released a version of Chrome to its developer channel that...

Anup Ghosh on PDF Exploits and Sandboxes

Dennis Fisher talks with Anup Ghosh, founder and chief scientist of Invincea, about the rise of browser and PDF exploits, the company’s new virtualized PDF security product and whether the Reader X sandbox will make a difference in preventing widespread PDF attacks. Podcast audio courtesy of...