WhitePages.com has stopped ad networks from delivering ads to its site after they were found to contain fake antivirus malware. Visitors to the Drudge Report, The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and other Web sites were found to be delivering ads containing malware last year. Read the full article. [CNet]
A Cambridge University study has shown how easy it is to guess the answer to common questions, such as someone’s mother’s maiden name. It found attackers will be able to break into 1 in 80 accounts if they get three chances to guess answers. Read the full article. [BBC]
Audio visual cabling giant monoprice.com shut down its Web site – possibly for the next couple of weeks – while it investigates the possible compromise of its customer credit and debit card information. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]
Twitter is launching a new service designed to prevent users from being tricked into visiting malicious Web sites after clicking on shortened URLs in direct messages or Twitter messages.
For the second time in less than six months, visitors to the Drudge
Report say they got malware in addition to the Web site’s usual
sensational headlines. Matt Drudge denied that his site was
infecting visitors, however it’s likely that the malware is coming from
ads delivered by a third-party ad network and not the site itself. Read the full article. [CNet]
LifeLock, an Arizona company promising
customers protection from identity theft, has agreed to pay $12 million
to settle charges that the company overstated its benefits and used
“scare tactics” to gain subscribers. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
After a busy February with 13 security bulletins, Microsoft is easing off the patching throttle a bit this month. Microsoft released two new security bulletins addressing 8 vulnerabilities, all not publically known at this time.
PayPal is asking UK customers to download software to help identify genuine e-mails sent by the eBay unit and weed out phishing messages. Read the full article. [finextra.com]
Security researchers have found the Mariposa bot client pre-installed on a mobile phone handset distributed in Europe, and say that the malware looks to have been installed on the phone’s memory card.
Organized cyber criminals stole more than $25 million from small to
mid-sized businesses in brazen e-banking heists in the 3rd quarter of
2009 alone, federal regulators said last week. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]
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