Targeted attacks using malicious PDF files

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Dating back to the end of February, we have been tracking test runs of malicious PDF messages to very specific targets. These PDF files exploit the recent vulnerability CVE-2008-0655. Ever since the end of March, beginning of April, the amount of samples seen in the wild has significantly increased. Interestingly enough, ...

How Anonymous Are You?

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

You may think that you are anonymous as you browse web sites, but pieces of information about you are always left behind. You can reduce the amount of information revealed about you by visiting legitimate sites, checking privacy policies, and minimizing the amount of personal information you provide. What information is ...

ISPs accused of tampering with web pages

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

About one percent of the Internet web pages are being changed in transit, sometimes in a harmful way, according to researchers at the University of Washington. In a paper, set to be delivered Wednesday, the researchers document some troubling practices. In July and August they tested data sent to about 50,000 ...