McAfee: Search results can be dangerous
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InfoWorld - The odds of a search engine directing you to a risky Web site are getting slimmer, but some companies are better at filtering out bad links than others, McAfee reported Monday.
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Vulnerability, rated as highly critical, could enable an attacker to compromise a user's machine.
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User-generated Web content is becoming a target for hackers and cross-site scripting attacks on Web sites can lead to malware taking over the browsers of machines that use the sites.
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Did you notice when Slashdot's  search was down for the past few days? (It's back up now.)  Turns out that in a stunning case of irony, it had been hammered into  submission by thousands of people attempting to use it.        However, unlike CmdrTaco's regimented DDoS attacks, this one is carried out  with malicious intent as opposed to mere sociopathic inconsiderateness.  It also highlights a potential threat from one of the biggest weblogging  services out there.
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The prevalence of adware and spyware is increasing at an exponential rate, and only one out of every 33 Web users can correctly identify a 'safe' or 'unsafe' site, security firm McAfee said in a report released Monday.
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If you use shared or public computers, you have a new privacy risk to consider: Google Desktop Search.
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The glitch, which could permit an attacker to secretly search the contents of a personal computer via the Internet, is the kind of flaw that emerges when separate components interact.
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A directory reversal within "flat" extensions could lead to system profile attacks.
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I&#8217;ve heard the warnings at conferences and especially in the Social Media Optimization field that spamming or multiple submissions to Digg and other social news sites could lead to the banning of that URL from future Digg listings. Seems that such a horrible fate was brought about on SearchBliss.com although they say that they were not [...]
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Search sites are getting wiser about not directing users to malware-loaded pages, but some companies do a better job of weeding out the garbage than others, according to a new study from McAfee. Two topics are particularly likely to lead to scum-infested sites.
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Most e-mail users are aware that opening an executable file (.exe) from an unknown source is a danger, but many don&#39;t know what an IM threat looks like.
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(InfoWorld) - Online criminals looking for new areas to attack in the next few years will find green fields in the Internet infrastructure and the digital home, researchers with McAfee's Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team (AVERT) labs said Tuesday. McAfee offered its take on the top security trends for 2007, at a press event in San Francisco, saying that well-known problemsÂ such asÂ phishing, spam, bots, and rootkits are on the rise. But in the years ahead, new areas will be top concerns, said Craig Schmugar, virus research manager at McAfee's AVERT labs. "In the short term, it will be the infrastructure side of things," he said. "In the long term, it will be digital entertainment." Schmugar said that the recent flaw in Windows DNS servers, which was exploited in a small number of online attacks, is a good example of things to come. These servers are a critical part of the Internet's infrastructure, used to convert the domain names users type into their browsers into the IP addresses that identify computers on the Internet. Microsoft patched the DNS flaw in April, shortly after the attacks began. McAfee also expects to see hackers focus more on Wi-Fi attacks as PC users become accustomed to connecting to wireless networks wherever they go. "We haven't heard of any real-world attacks, but that's likely to become a bigger issue, especially with municipal Wi-Fi," Schmugar said. Some security experts have warned that public Wi-Fi could be used to set up "man-in-the middle" attacks, where a criminal sets up a malicious wireless network and then intercepts online communication between the victims and any of the Internet servers they try to reach. Researcher Christopher Soghoian recently demonstrated how such an attack could beÂ used to install malicious software on a Firefox browser. And the digital home will eventually attract home invaders too, Schmugar predicted. As consumers get more comfortable downloading and playing movies and games on home entertainment computers, that may also give hackers a new way to attack, he said. McAfee says that video on the Web is already being hit with attacks. In March, the company reported that the MySpace page for the French band Mamasaid had been infected and was downloading malicious code hidden in a QuickTime file.
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Antivirus software company McAfee Inc. said on Monday that a new version of its VirusScan Enterprise software contains so-called "intrusion prevention" features that can protect computers from attacks such as buffer overflows, which are often used by viruses, worms and malicious hackers to compromise vulnerable Microsoft Corp. Windows machines.
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You can usually find information more easily on the vast Internet than you can on your own computer&#39;s hard drive. The reason, of course, is that the search tools designed to index the Internet are much better developed than those for personal computers.
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Beta search app creates vulnerabilities that may threaten your data's security.
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Blog: Random search strings in Google can yield sites hosting drive-by downloads of malicious content.
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People who use public or workplace computers for e-mail, instant messaging and Web searching have a new security risk to worry about: Google's free new tool that indexes a PC's contents for quickly locating data.