A “Malvertising” campaign has used legitimate online advertising supply chains to distribute malicious adverts around the world. Because the return from clicks on malicious ads is so instantaneous, the posters are willing and able to outbid legitimate advertisements. “The ads often contain mal...
via Gov Info Security The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC), a government-private sector initiative, could enhance efficiency, security and privacy in all the transactions done online every day, says NIST’s Jeremy Grant, senior executive adviser of identity managem...
via the Daily Telegraph The internet was never meant to do sensitive banking transactions, cyber criminals are winning the war against online security and Australia’s easy going nature is making us vulnerable targets to ever-more sophisticated internet thugs. That was San Francisco-based inter...
via Ars Technica Following a quick trip to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, United States Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke is headed for the Stanford Institute on Policy Research on Friday. He’s there to talk up the Obama administration’s efforts to “enhance online secur...