- Malware Learn Better Security Breach PR from Herald Sun's Halfhearted Apology
A quick apology isn't enough after a security breach. Readers also need to know what hit them, how to clean up, and what controls will stop a repeat.
- Malware A Delusive Sense of Security in Walled Gardens
Walled gardens like Facebook, corporate networks, and smartphone app stores encourage users to lower their guard, creating false security assumptions that scammers exploit. People click more readily...
- Malware Malvertising: Dealing With Malicious Ads - Who and How?
Ad networks could validate advertisers, research domain registrations, and examine Flash ads for malicious logic—but practices are ineffective or ignored. One organization reduced malware infections...
- Malware Malvertising: The Mechanics of Malicious Ads
Malicious ads redirect victims through chains of domains to exploit kits or social engineering sites. Flash-based ads embed ActionScript logic that can decide when and whom to attack, evade detection...
- Social Engineering The Targeted Attack Potential of Vanity Web Searches
Vanity web searches create targeted attack opportunities. Attackers can create pages with a target's name, wait for Google indexing, then add malware knowing the person will visit when alerts...
- Malware Social Graph: The Holy Grail of Actionable Intelligence
Attackers harvest email and social networking data to construct organizational social graphs, identifying connectors whose accounts could send social engineering messages, new "clueless" employees...