Another day, another zero-day. This time, it’s Internet Explorer that is attracting the sort of publicity a browser doesn’t want, with the public disclosure of an XSS bug.
Daily Archives: February 4, 2015
D-Link routers vulnerable to DNS hijacking
A newly discovered vulnerability in the ZynOS firmware used by popular routers may leave some models at risk of DNS hijacking
Revenge-porn website operator Kevin Bollaert guilty of identity theft and extortion
Kevin Bollaert was behind ugotposted.com and its companion extortion site, which would take down frantic victims’ photos (for a tidy sum, of course).
New-style ransomware locks out your customers – demands money to let them log back in
The crooks took a low-key, annoyingly simple, and hard-to-spot approach. Change usernames like JIMMY to FKOVWH3Z7LUV, but hide the changes…for a while, anyway.
Google, Amazon, Microsoft pay to get ads past Adblock Plus
Ad-buying big boys Google, Amazon, Microsoft and the content marketing platform Taboola have quietly ponied up the money to keep their ads from being blocked on Adblock Plus, the world’s most popular software for blocking online advertising.