Google scans web traffic for nasties

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Google's new Web Security for Enterprise service enables companies in the US and Europe to safeguard their internet traffic with protection against viruses and spyware and malicious URLs. According to Google the system "powered by Postini, stops web-borne spyware and viruses before they infiltrate your network and compromise or disable ...

Mass File Injection Attack

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

We received a report from Mike this afternoon about a couple of URLs containing a malicious JavaScript that pulls down a file associated with Zlob.  If you do a google search for these two URLs, you get about 400,000 sites that have a call to this Javascript file included in ...

Gmail as a spam engine

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

This is not good. Researchers from INSERT found a vulnerability in the Gmail engine that could allow spammers to forward mail through Google, thereby bypassing blacklists and being accepted by whitelists. It works by using the same forwarding features that allow users, myself included, to forward their email through ...

Microsoft Abandons Yahoo Acquisition

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

Microsoft has dropped its nearly three-month-long pursuit of Yahoo, ending a historic acquisition attempt whose failure takes Microsoft back to square one in its quest to boost its online business to better compete against Google. "We continue to believe that our proposed acquisition made sense for Microsoft, Yahoo and the market ...

Phishers Mimic Google Adwords

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

Google Adwords account holders are being targeted by criminals out to trick them into handing over credit card information using a clever URL spoof that has gained popularity in recent weeks. On the face of it, the scam follows a traditional attack route involving the sending of spam e-mail to random ...