Yes, Virgina, Malicious Advertising Growth in Numbers and Viciousness Is Startling →

February 04, 2018 by Marc Handelman in Malicious Advertising, Malvertising, Malware, Malware Detection, Information Security, Cybersecurity

Dan Goodin, writing at our beloved Ars Technica, reports on the startling large numbers of malicious advertising exploits and the subsequent malevolence of same. Unfortunately, Today's Must Read.

Les Bloqueurs d'Annonces →

June 07, 2017 by Marc Handelman in Advertising, Malicious Advertising, Malvertising, Information Security

via Catalin Cimpanu's well crafted reportage at Bleeping Computer comes further proof of why you must (if you value your safety whilst traversing the engrossing intarwebs) block advertising and it's concommitant data-gathering code objects (cookies, LSOs, beacons, pixels and what-not) and redirections thereto. Is it any wonder Alphabet Inc.'s Google (NasdaqGS: GOOGL) is now developing adblock code for it's own browser platform - Chrome? And, now Apple Inc. (NasdaqGS: AAPL) will be releasing a new version of Safari with Anti-Tracking Cookie bits we well, Get on with it then.

Evil Ops, MethBot →

January 30, 2017 by Marc Handelman in Adware, All is Information, Cybernetic Crime, Information Security, Malvertising

The story of the malvertising delivered MethBot - (PDF), and, at $3,000,000.00 per day (est.) it's truly making America pay...