Day: January 11, 2014

Malicious ads served through Yahoo’s ad network delivered malware to thousands of site visitors, according to researchers at Fox-IT, but Yahoo subsequently blocked the attack. Fox-IT’s post said that visitors who saw the ads in their browsers were redirected to a “Magnitude” exploit kit. “This exploit kit exploits vulnerabilities in Continue Reading

Security researcher Jitendra Jaiswal has identified a couple of interesting vulnerabilities in Facebook and Google. Both of them have been addressed. The security hole that plagued Facebook was an open URL redirect issue that allowed an attacker to redirect victims to any website without any restriction and without interaction on Continue Reading