As many as five million Web sites hosted by Network Solutions have been serving up malware, probably for several months. "This is one of the biggest infections for drive-by download attacks that I've seen," said Wayne Huang, co-founder and CTO of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Armorize Technologies, a Web application security...
Security secrets that might help you thwart the bad guys.
You already know the basics of internet security, right? You know to keep your antivirus program and patches up to date, to be careful where you go on the Internet, and to exercise online street-smarts to resist being tricked into visiting a phishing site or downloading a Trojan horse. But...
Update: Attackers exploit critical bug in Adobe’s Flash and Reader
Critical Bug in Adobe Products Last week, Adobe warned that attackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in the company's most widely-used software: Flash Player and Adobe Reader. The zero-day vulnerability is reminiscent of one Adobe disclosed and patched in July 2009, and comes just days after the company's head of...
Sneaky Tabnapping Browser Phishing Tactic Surfaces
A new, incredibly sneaky identity-theft tactic surfaced earlier this week when Mozilla's Aza Raskin, the creative lead of Firefox, unveiled what's become known as "tabnapping" that can dupe users into giving up passwords by secretly changing already-open browser tabs. It is a tabnapping browser phishing scam. Stated simply, tabnapping -- from...