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Online advertising regaining momentum
After bogging down in the recession, internet advertising is regaining the momentum that has made it the decade's most disruptive marketing machine. The signs of an online revival are emerging even while advertising in print and broadcasts remains...
Google results flog millions of compromised webpages
Two ongoing scams are tricking Google and other search engines into prominently displaying millions of compromised webpages that attempt to hijack end users' computers or steal their credit card numbers, researchers said. http://www.theregister.co...
Facebook shuts down Beacon marketing tool
Facebook says it will shut down its controversial marketing feature Beacon, an application that broadcasts users' activities, including purchases, on other websites to their Facebook friends. The feature was adopted in November 2007 and immediately...
New York Times Reforms Online Ad Sales After Malware Scam
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/09/nyt-revamps-online-ad-sales-after-malware-scam/
Facebook 'cash flow positive,' signs 300M users
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the social networking site has more than 300 million users, and earned more money than it spent last quarter. In a blog post on Facebook, Zuckerberg wrote that the company was "cash flow positive"...
Jackson's death slows web to a crawl
In life, Michael Jackson once ruled the pop charts. With his death, he dominated the internet. As reports of Jackson's death on Thursday spread, celebrity gossip websites crashed, news sites slowed to a crawl and traffic on social networking sites...
Conficker botnet remains dormant - for now
Conficker changed the way parts of the botnet communicated overnight, but little else of note has happened so far. The malware is far from an April Fool's joke, but it's obviously a long way from the Skynet botnet, as depicted in Terminator 3...
China rejects computer spy claims
China's government on Tuesday dismissed a research report outlining an extensive spy network based mostly in China as "lies" designed to hurt the country's image abroad. Speaking to reporters, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said...
As Conficker activation looms, scammers seek to profit off fear
Online scammers are trying to profit from fear of the latest big name in internet viruses by creating and promoting links to fake security software, according to security firms. The scams are hoping to capitalize on consumer fear over the Conficker worm...
Reported internet spy network just tip of iceberg: researcher
An internet spy network that targeted hundreds of "high value" computers belonging to government departments and other organizations in 103 countries is likely just one of many, says one of the Canadian researchers who uncovered it. "We...
Facebook users warned about dangers of being app happy
Facebook users are being urged to be wary about what Facebook applications they accept and what links they click as cyber criminals increasingly target the popular social networking site. In the past week, several new variants of the Koobface worm, which...
Conficker Activity Update
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2009/02/12/conficker-activity-update.aspx
Conficker Domain Information
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2009/02/12/conficker-domain-information.aspx
Windows virus spreading quickly, but may be a dud
A computer virus that may leave Microsoft Windows users vulnerable to digital hijacking is spreading through companies in the U.S., Europe and Asia, already infecting close to nine million machines, according to a private online security firm. http:/...
China's nonstop music machine
Baidu versus business http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/13/baidu_investigation/
Comcast files FCC impotence suit
'We will comply without complying' As expected, Comcast has appealed the landmark FCC order that sanctioned the American ISP for secretly blocking BitTorrents and other peer-to-peer traffic. But the meatpuppetting cable outfit says it will comply...
Prof says young people have unique sense of Facebook privacy
Study says older people who run organizations see everything online as public Last Updated: Thursday, September 4, 2008 | 12:19 PM ET Comments 19 Recommended 33 CBC News A "digital divide" exists in Canada between young people who see information...
McAfee slaps Trojan warning on MS Office Live
McAfee has apologised after an anti-virus update released on Monday night incorrectly identified a plug-in for Microsoft Office Live Meeting as a Trojan. The signature update file mistakingly flagged LMCAPI.exe (a component of Live Update) as a Trojan...
History shaped Google's Trojan Horse
Analysis When people buy software - buy it in seriously large amounts - it isn't just today's binary they're choosing. They're buying what they think is a bit of the future - they're buying a piece of risk insurance. This explains...
Ad-aware "SE" SE1R285
http://www.lavasoft.com/support/securitycenter/blog/ http://www.lavasoft.com/single/mirror_download.php?f=948DEWk12 http://download.lavasoft.com/public/defs.zip
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