What’s been on people’s minds lately?

As we have been predicting (and following during 2008), the criminal’s mind is very much attuned to public mind. The current issues that everyone (well, at least a lot of us) has been dealing with are the current economical situation, and what president Obama is going to do about it. Without fail, eCriminals have been worried about the same issues, and in their latest “marketing” efforts have made sure that relevant internet sites will cater for themselves as well. Reports by Websense and Sophos show how both the official Barack Obama website, and a couple of popular job sites have been compromised in an attempt to capitalize on the volume of traffic that has been hitting these sites.

As usual, no much surprise here (read more details about the “almanac” of web security here), still, be careful out there – even on sites which you supposedly trust. Common sense usually trumps the irresistible urge to click and approve everything shown to you when trying to get to some content.