More details of Flash malware
The details of the infected Flash ad that appeared on the USA Today site that was mentioned in the previous post can be seen at this Websense link.
Malware in Flash ads
The problem of malware infected ads in normally respectable sites is growing. Windows Secrets reports on this serious problem:
A Flash-based advertisement that appeared last week on the USA Today site downloaded malicious code to users’ computers, generating erroneous warnings of a malware infestation and offering a phony solution.
The Flash vulnerability is so widespread that such [...]
ActiveX biggest source of browser bugs
Readers of this blog will not be surprised to hear that ActiveX problems account for the large majority of security holes in Internet Explorer plug-ins. Greg Keizer writes about a new Symantec report:
ActiveX controls accounted for an overwhelming majority of all browser plug-in vulnerabilities in the second half of 2007, Symantec Corp. said this week [...]
The ever-growing malware threat
Greg Keizer reports that Symantec has now counted over 1.1 million distinct malware threats since it started keeping track over 25 years ago. What is striking is not the total but how much comes from recent times. The total is through 2007 and last year contributed 711,912. So a large majority of all malware ever [...]