Web threats

Incidents

Search poisoning, again

Another day, another disaster, and once again, the bad guys are exploiting this subject to poison search results so that those looking for some news get lead to a page offering a rogue AV solution.

Incidents

Patching our children

Today the UK Council on Child Internet Safety [UKCCIS] is launching its Child Internet Safety Strategy. The strategy is designed to encourage children not to disclose personal information, to block unwanted messages on social networks and to report inappropriate behaviour.

Publications

Facebook isn’t always fun

National Anti-Bullying Week is kicking off in the UK today. This year the focus is on combating cyberbullying, with lots of resources for schools, a roadshow, and videos discussing the problem of bullying.

Research

Browsing malicious websites

In recent years, the Web has become the main distribution point for malware. Malicious programs are hosted on websites; users are then either tricked into running these programs manually, or exploits are used to execute the malware automatically on victim machines.

Research

The Gumblar system

We’ve been looking at the infrastructure of the Gumblar malware and found some curious facts on how Gumblar operates which we would like to share to make hosting owners aware of the Gumblar threat.

Publications

Traps on the Internet

Cybercriminals are unlikely to reinvent the wheel, so once you’ve encountered a scam or threat, and have learnt, you can use this information in the future. This article therefore focuses on some typical examples, and explains how you can protect yourself.

Reports
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