Adware In The News

A Good Read: Adware and Spyware Protection: The Ultimate Protection Guide Against Adware and Spyware

The following short news stories are offered to demonstrate a sample of the up-to-date news we provide in our free newsletter. After you read through the following, be sure to pick up any one of the Anti-Adware programs we offer here at SavySoftware. If you’re anything like we are, you certainly won’t want to become the victim of cyber-criminals like the ones described below:

The new battleground in cybercrime (ZDNet)

Finjan CTO Yuval Ben-Itzhak writes that user data increasingly is driving “criminal-2-criminal” business. In an age where “data equals money,” fortune has replaced fame as hacker s’ key motivation. Criminals are willing to pay top dollar for personal, financial, and corporate data collected by Trojans and other “crimeware.”

Google cleans malware from search results (TechWorld)

Security Hire Top U.S.A. Security coders w/ ExpertRating status and more.

justoutsourcing

Nothing to see here. Move along please. Google has purged its index of the thousands of malware sites that wormed their way into results lists for hundreds of legitimate search phrases, researchers have confirmed.

Penn student at center of worldwide hacking investigation (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

When a suspicious computer server crash at the University of Pennsylvania last year denied service to 4,000 students, faculty and staff, technicians called the FBI – triggering a case that would take agents around the world and lead to the arrest of a brilliant but brash Penn junior.

Alleged ‘botmaster’ raided by police (PC Advisor)

Eighteen year old blamed for 1 million infections. The home of the alleged ringleader of an international group of cybercriminals said to be responsible for infecting more than one million computers has been raided by police. Current events can be found in our Adware News section.

External Resources:

1. Spyware and Adware (Advances in Information Security)
2. The Ultimate Protection Guide Against Adware and Spyware
3. Everyone’s Guide to Email, Internet, and Wireless Security