"We never run ads on Wikipedia," said Philippe Beaudette, director of community advocacy for the Wikimedia Foundation, in a blog post. "If you're seeing advertisements for a for-profit industry ... or anything but our fundraiser, then your web browser has likely been infected with malware."
One type of malware that could lead to this type of bogus ad is a Google Chrome ...
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"We've recently discovered a series of attacks being carried out by a P2P variant of the Zeus platform against some of the internet’s leading online services and websites," Trusteer said in a blog post, adding that the malware comes from an ad purporting to offer rebates and new security measures to users who click on it. "The scams exploit the trust relationship between...
"The main infection method was email messages luring victims to web sites running a variety of exploit kits," according to the report. "The victim would typically receive an email message from a business or the government informing them of an issue with their account. This would contain a reasonable looking link to a web site. The web site would actually host an exploit ki...
"There is no question that you are more secure using a modern version of Windows than you were in 2002 using the initial release of Windows XP," Bott said. "At the same time, attackers are more sophisticated and more focused on financial gain."
He said in addition to building a better process for writing secure code, companies like Microsoft have improved their update i...
"[Macs] used to be in fact a lot less secure than Windows but now they have more or less caught up to where they are a little less secure than Windows. It's so close you pretty can't much argue about it," Miller explained to the news source. He said Microsoft is extremely on top of security with "Patch Tuesday." This is the monthly event when it releases security updates. ...
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