Black hats poison Google video search Miscreants have poisoned Google Video search results in a bid to trick the unwary into getting infected with malware. Instead of video clips, researchers at Trend Micro discovered that around 400,000 queries returning malicious results that lead to a single redirection point, which leads onto an array of maliciously …
to media players, browser plugins, OS, in fact anything. Download them from the authors official site or other trusted source. Inconvenient? just abit. Secure? not absolutely, but downloading and installing any exe from thrid parties, especially those punting "interesting videos" is just plain stupid, at least to those in ITspace*, no matter how desperate one is for the stimulus provided by said punted video.
User education and awareness of such methods would go a long way to mitigating this avenue of attack. I would go as far as to say user education and awareness is probably the only real defence. But I don't see much in the way of information regarding these issues in sheepspace*. The beeb and mainstream newspapers may bleat on about ID theft, the grooming of children and play down the potential impact of government/industry data loss blunders but that's as far as warnings go when it comes to computer related security.
The Internet was designed with resilience in mind not security, it will likely never be secure. (I am in no way smart enough to provide a definitive). So the Internet user has to enforce their own security and they have to know how to do so.
It would only take a weekly round up of ongoing and emerging Web based attacks and what the user can do to identify and defeat/remove them. The last five minutes of every beeb/sky/news channel newscast of a Friday or Monday could be dedicated to such.
ITspace:
The virtual reality, the pizza demographic, the selective intelligence, the realm of the BOFH.
sheepspace*:
The sanitised reality, the mean demographic, the collective intelligence, the realm of the censor.
These spaces are not mutually exclusive.
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