Leading tech companies have joined forces to create the Ads Integrity Alliance, a coalition that aims to protect web users from malicious ads.
The banking trojan Citadel now is being used to trick users into believing they have violated U.S. law and must pay a fine to unfreeze their computers,
WordPress installations received a security upgrade on Friday to patch a number of vulnerabilities.
Visiting a well-trafficked, seemingly trusted website won't necessarily save web surfers from getting malware installed on their computers, according to security firm Barracuda Networks.
Automated attackers are trawling the web for vulnerable WordPress blogs so they can silently redirect users to dangerous exploits. So far, however, the number of victims is in the hundreds.
Microsoft on Tuesday released eight fixes to address 23 vulnerabilities that lie across its software and operating system components.
Visitors to MySQL.com on Monday were greeted with a drive-by download that attempted to silently install malware on their machine.
An Adobe Flash vulnerability that was fixed this week is being leveraged in widespread but targeted drive-by downloads and spear phishing attacks.
Google's latest version of Chrome warns users if they are attempting to run a plug-in that is out of date.
November 15, 2010
As security firm Fortinet celebrates 10 years in business, Fortiguard Labs took a look at the 10 most intriguing threats during the past decade and showed how their feature sets have evolved, Darwin-like, over time.
Attackers are now actively exploiting a recently published zero-day vulnerability in Apple QuickTime, security firm Websense disclosed Tuesday.
An estimated hundreds of thousands to millions of Network Solutions parked domains were actively serving malware to visitors due to an infected widget, according to researchers at a security firm.
An estimated 1.3 million malicious advertisements, or malvertisements, are served to websites each day, according to data gathered by web security firm Dasient. Malvertisements are disguised as legitimate ads and delivered via ad networks to well-known websites. Users can be hit simply by visiting the target website, as 59 percent of malvertisements aim to spread via drive-by download. About 41 percent of malvertisements propagate rogue anti-virus programs, according to Dasient. Additionally, users are twice as likely of getting infected by a malvertisement during the weekend, and the average lifespan of one is 7.3 days. — AM
Soon after a zero-day Sun Java vulnerability was revealed, attackers are launching exploits on the web with their first stop a song lyrics site.
