Web smut sites are SAFER than search engines, declares Cisco Cisco proclaimed that it is more dangerous to click on a web ad than a porn site these days as it unveiled the latest version of its security threat report. The vendor also expanded its security offering, pulling in mobile management support for its ISE platform and announcing it had hoovered up Czech-based real-time security …
http://www.coresecurity.com/content/webex-wrf-memory-corruption-vulnerability
a one hit wonder upon webex?
Wireless Lan controller (7.2.110.0 and other versions)?
http://infosec42.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/cisco-wlc-csrf-dos-and-persistent-xss.html
"Cisco Bug ID/CVE:
CSRF: CSCud50283/CVE-2012-5992,
XSS: CSCud65187/CVE-2012-6007
DoS: CSCud50209/CVE-2012-5991"
and the DPC2420 router issues?
is really super-duper technically aren't-we-so-elite technically really clever, complete with lots of obscure semi proprietary technologies with TLAs that sound impressive. Yet in the real world produce well-marketed utterly fu$%1ng useless bugtastic malfunctioning crap. .
"On the upside, perhaps, online adverts were 182 times more likely to deliver malware than a porno site, the survey said."
I am not using, or letting my family use, any device without some kind of AdBlock. Nobody believes me when I say that I had no virus problem on anything for a very long time (for sure more then 5 years). Ads are evil.
It has been since at least 1998 since I have last seen malware on any of my home PCs.
Do I have expensive AV software and firewalls ? No.
Do I seek out and immediately install all updates to all my software ? No.
What have I done then ? Simple :
1) I have set IE as a web browser I only use for specific sites that do not work without it.
2) I use Firefox with Adblock, NoScript, Redirect Remover and Cookie Manager add-ons.
3) I do not use Outlook for my email.
4) I do not install toolbars of any kind, ever.
5) I do not have any IM client of any kind anywhere.
6) I do not use any social sites or even social media of any kind if I can help it.
7) I do not blindly click on every link I get in my mail. Unsolicited crap gets trashed by my whitelist management system, anything else I check and verify before clicking - if I feel that it has a possible relevance to me.
Now, I am a particularly rabid curmudgeon, I agree, but I do believe that the first 4 steps - and the last one - can be easily followed by everyone without trouble. If you do have use for Facebook, Twitter or whatever, it's your call; I'm not criticizing that, just saying I don't use them.
And since malware writers love targeting things that are widely used, not being on Facebook certainly saves me from some measure of risk.
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Confess, I didn't even read the article. However, with the title alone I completely agree. In fact, even before Google became huge I thought this could be the truth due to how certain things work on sites like Yahoo's Geocities, ICQ and not to mention AOL (they double dipped).
A porn/smut company wants a simple thing from you, and if you are a potential client, then you just sign up with a credit card. That's simple, quick and to the point. However, with something like Google on the other hand, what is a potential client? There takes a lot more digging around in personal data to figure this out, not to mention that the data Google is collecting is mostly involuntary, or at least unknowingly supplied.
This would seem obvious to most, but don't forget, Google is 1 company, just like that porn site is 1 company.
It's very useful -- a single right-click on a photo of Zuckerberg in Facebook means that any image file coming from Facebook servers is never seen.
Adblock has never been A/V -- it means that reading newspapers on-line don't come with loads of adverts (especially if you can find the ad server address and block it directly)
since around 1993, perhaps earlier. I cannot remember exactly when I first went online.
There wasn't much in the way of advertising then and surfing the the Internet was an adventure. I watched the commercialisation of the Internet and was not impressed.
Some of you may find this hard to believe but it is true. I have never ever clicked on an advertisement, seriously in all that time I haven't, and I never will. As soon as I discovered what the host file was for I made use of it to block all the crap. Now there is adblock which makes things a little easier.
I have never had a virus on my PC, at least none that I was aware of. Perhaps I have been owned in my ignorance, there are far more clever people out there than me.
Code red owned a network I was responsible for but then again it owned the whole corporate network and not just my site.
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