Category: Opinion
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Blocking legitimate sites in real-time
I Ran into this on Slashdot: http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/09/21/1827209.shtml. It seems like the Google filter for malicious sites was blocking a whole domain name – including all sub-domains, which happened to be a dynamic DNS provider. A Big false positive, and a big problem to all the legitimate sites that were hosted using this domain. Disclosure –…
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Chrome, IE8, FF3 – is there anything new?
As websites are getting to be treated more like applications, users, both end-users and especially business ones, are moving from traditional old-school desktop applications (remember when “client-server†architecture was the thing?) to Software as a Service (SaaS), in-the-cloud, and just plain web applications. Security has been shifting from securing the local operating system to securing…
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On the (dis)merits of privacy
Following up on my last post, after filing a complaint with the abuse department of privacyprotect.org (and blogging about the problem), I have just received an update noting that: –quote– On investigating on your complaint , we have determined that the domain name “SPYWARESAFE.NET ” is in violation of the terms of usage of the…
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Taking down a malicious site – the good, the bad, and the ugly…
As part of the “closure” on the February Malicious Page of the Month, which involved meoryprof.info (taken down), and spywaresafe.net we have contacted the appropriate parties in order to notify them that these websites contain malicious code. Meoryprof.info was the first to buckle (probably under the press exposure), but spywaresafe.net have managed to stay afloat…
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Crimeware server and the international man of mystery
While conducting research for the latest Malicious Page of the Month we have just released, we tried to track down the origins of the crimeware. Obviously, this is a daunting task by itself, and although sometimes security researchers are able to point at specific people as the ones running the criminal activity, it does not…