Facebook banner ad serves an exploit
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If you haven't updated your Windows computer in more than one year, you could be subjected to a barrage of unwanted adware.
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Serves up ads for deceptive security software Facebook has become the latest website to be found pushing services that delivers highly deceptive security warnings designed to trick users into buying software.â¦
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Users of the Internet Explorer click on ad banners four to five times as often as Firefox surfers, Adtech AG, a service provider for Internet ads, has determined (PDF).
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Hackers twist ad network into Trojan network Hackers have rooted into a server owned by internet advertising network 24/7 Real Media and used it to serve malware-laced banner ads that tried to circumvent security mechanisms on end users' machines, Symantec researchers said. The malware exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in Real Player that was patched on Friday.â¦
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Misdirection ruse Security researchers have identified a Trojan that hijacks Google text advertisements, replacing them with "ads" from a different provider that are likely to be laced with spyware.â¦
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In brief Exploit circulating for unpatched vuln
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An intruder could manipulate a flaw in how the browsers handle image files to see where the user has been surfing.
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Dubbed MyDoom.AH by security firms, this latest variant in the MyDoom family of worms is exploiting the recently publicised vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer&#39;s (IE) IFRAME buffer overflow.
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Blog: Researcher shows how URLs can be spoofed and content arbitrary within Safari 3.0 beta.
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Flawed ActiveX controls used to upload photos on the popular social networking sites Facebook and MySpace can be used by hackers to snatch control of Windows PCs, according to security researchers.
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InfoWorld - Researchers at security gateway vendor Fortinet have uncovered an adware-distribution scheme being carried out on the Facebook social networking site considered to be the first attack propagated on the wildly popular online portal.
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Trojan horse that exploits flaw in how Windows handles JPEG images may be low risk, but it's a bad omen.
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A second MyDoom offshoot is taking advantage of an unpatched security hole in Microsoft's Web browser to spread.
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Neil Patel has a short and simple post today over at Pronet Advertising with the message against &#8220;Spamming Digg through Instant Messenger.&#8221; Neil&#8217;s theory is that if you IM 20 of your friends pointing them to the page on Digg with your story on it, asking them to Digg it, Digg should be able to flag [...]
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Web site visitors who clicked on banner ads on a number of popular European Web sites this weekend could have infected their computers with variants of the Bofra worm, experts warned on Monday.
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PC Magazine - A malicious PDF is exploiting a URL-handling flaw in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 running IE7.
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Alternative browser features protection against online scams.