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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.

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

My God, It's Full of Ads...

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.

June 07, 2017 /Marc Handelman
Advertising, Malicious Advertising, Malvertising, Information Security

Fifty Percent

June 27, 2016 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Malware, Malicious Advertising, Information Security

HelpNet Security tells the tale of malicous web advertising, calcualting a stunning figure: Fifty percent of all web advertising is now evil. Is it any wonder that ad blockers now number in the most popular applications used on both mobile and desktop systems?

June 27, 2016 /Marc Handelman /Source
All is Information, Malware, Malicious Advertising, Information Security

Ad-Block, and Why You Should Too... →

September 11, 2015 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Information Security, Vulnerabilities, Malicious Advertising

via the eponymous Darren Pauli, comes this tell-all of poisoned Google Inc. (NasdaqGS: GOOG) and Yahoo! (NasdaqGS: YHOO) advertising.

September 11, 2015 /Marc Handelman
All is Information, Information Security, Vulnerabilities, Malicious Advertising

Malvert-ized →

October 23, 2014 by Marc Handelman in Data Security, Information Security, Malware, Web Security, Malicious Advertising

News [via Lucian Constantin writing at PCWorld] of the latest compromised advertising networks... In this case,  Right Media (now Yahoo Ad Exchange), The Rubicon Project, and OpenX - all three broadcasting their nasty bits, now infecting unknown numbers of clients... Hence the necessity of proactive ad-blocking with browser extensions such as AdBlock.

October 23, 2014 /Marc Handelman
Data Security, Information Security, Malware, Web Security, Malicious Advertising