Ad industry tries ‘certified’ security seals to combat ransomware in ads
Firms in the $50bn online ad industry can now apply for a security seal to signal they’ve done enough to prevent criminals exploiting news to spread ransomware.
Firms in the $50bn online ad industry can now apply for a security seal to signal they’ve done enough to prevent criminals exploiting news to spread ransomware.
The government's long-awaited cybersecurity policy finally dropped along with a $230m funding commitment and a determination to draw more heavily on academic and private-sector resources.
David Braue | 26 Apr | Read more
Google has run the numbers on warning people off hijacked websites and says the data supports its seemingly “punitive" measure that publicly shames website operators before telling them of a breach.
Symantec's latest annual research suggested that the incidence of zero-days had doubled in 2015 – due in large part to the growing professionalism of cybercriminals developing new malware like the hybrid GozNym banking Trojan.
David Braue | 18 Apr | Read more
The global standard for ad-supported video could soon make it easier for malvertisers to abuse smartphones and PC video players, according to one of the world’s largest providers of the ad-serving technology.
Andrew Colley | 14 Apr | Read more
Malicious advertising has dropped and pornography surged as a proportion of key infection vectors for mobile users, according to new research into mobile malware that has also found more than 1.5m “malicious packages” were installed on mobiles during the third quarter.
David Braue | 05 Nov | Read more
Google’s latest weapon in its war on ad injectors is to block advertisers from buying impressions the unwanted software generates.
It’s Microsoft’s July Patch Tuesday and Redmond has issued fixes for four critical flaws while Adobe contribution is 34 fixes for critical flaws in Adobe Flash Player.
Australian CSOs blame CEOs and not users for problems in IT security, according to a new survey that also showed support for jailing executives whose failure to prioritise cybersecurity leads to a breach. Yet we need a broader approach to cybersecurity skills development all around to protect our economic future, Cisco Systems has argued in a response to the first-ever Australian Government Cyber Security Review. Skills deficits were even hitting high-level cybersecurity research organisations as companies continue to snap up anyone who can spell APT.
David Braue | 10 Aug | Read more
You're more likely to encounter malware while shopping online than by visiting a gambling site
John P. Mello Jr. | 01 Feb | Read more
In the last three months of 2010 attackers managed to serve 3 million malicious advertising, or malvertising, impressions every day. That's the headline figure from a report released today from Web security firm Dasient. According to Dasient, that's a 100 percent increase from the preceding quarter.
George V. Hulme | 09 Mar | Read more