Malware

Over the weekend, Twitter suffered from some security problems that fell more on the mischievous than malicious side of things.  Now, the sort of social media trouble quotient appears to have risen a bit as fake LinkedIn profiles are trying to send users towards malware.

Google has taken steps to remove malware websites from its search results, according to a ComputerWorld article released Wednesday.

Google has shown itself to be the strong, silent type, and quick, too - in about two days’ time, the company cleaned up what one individual called “massive amounts of malware redirects” without bothering to say a word about it.

Compared to murder, malware isn’t so bad.  It’s not exactly good, though, and in a development that can’t please Google, it’s been connected to DoubleClick.

Visitors to the Web site of the IndiaTimes.com were exposed to malware, according to a ScanSafe advisory.

Proof of concept code demonstrated to Secure Computing showed how Adobe's popular Portable Document Formet could become a massive attack vector for malware distributors.

A couple of very obvious tipoffs should make it apparent to regular Google visitors that a malicious version of the search engine's home page has been substituted for the real thing.

One of the more interesting attacks or hacks coming out the hacker's world is the idea of malware embedded in advertising.