The safe browsers are safe no more…

From ZDNet

 

Security researchers have intercepted a fake Flash Player update creating a Firefox add-on that spies on a target user’s Google search results.

The malicious Firefox extension, called “Adobe Flash Player 0.2,” injects ads into the user’s Google search results pages and even has the capability to monitor the user’s browsing activities, particularly Google search queries using the Firefox browser.

It then sends the information it gathers to a hacker-controlled server.

 

Do not get Flash from any place but the Adobe site. What used to be safe, the alternative browsers, like Firefox, are now becoming methods of attack.  Be aware…..

 

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If you can not trust a parking ticket....?

So that you do not have to worry about things to worry about...  From the BBC

 

Drivers found the following message on the yellow ticket on their windscreen: "PARKING VIOLATION This vehicle is in violation of standard parking regulations".

The ticket then instructed drivers to visit a website, where drivers could "view pictures with information about your parking preferences".

The website instructed users to download a tool bar containing a virus

According to internet security watchdog The SANS Institute, the website then had photos of cars in various car parks around Grand Forks and instructed users to download a tool bar to find photos of their own vehicle.

 

When you invent a better mouse trap, someone invents a better mouse I guess. 

Nothing says I'm fiends with you like koobface.

There's nothing like social networking sites to keep people connected and worms propagating — such as the all new and improved Net-Worm:W32/Koobface.CZ. A little infection equals a little comment in someone's little site somewhere.This version of Koobface targets the following sites in its body:–

– bebo.com
– myyearbook.com
– blackplanet.com
– facebook.com
– myspace.com
– friendster.com

You've Got Comment! - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

Well, the social network sites get to play the game now.  Seems like they are going after them hard.

United Viruses

United Viruses

Took a while to download, but in the end, kind of funny.....

Was P T Barnum correct?

FOXNews.com - Hundreds of PC Users Click On 'Click Here to Get Infected' Ad - Technology News | News On Technology:

"No PCs were harmed in this experiment, he emphasizes. The site is benign and has never hosted malware or other scripts or code.

Then he started the Google Adwords campaign, using combinations of the words 'drive-by download' along with the ad, which links to the drive-by-download.info site.

Next, he sat and waited ... for six months.

Over that period, his ad was viewed 259,723 times and clicked on 409 times, for a click-through rate of about .16 percent.

The experiment cost him $23, or 6 cents per click/potentially infected machine.

Of the 409 people who clicked, 98 percent were running Windows machines, according to the user agent string, which is a text string that identifies a Web site visitor to a server."

While .16% does not seem like a large number, if done in large enough quantities, it can be a huge number. What is scary here is that people knew what they were clicking on before they clicked it.