Results for 'yahoo'
Study explores clickjacking problem across top Alexa-ranked websites
August 27, 2019 - Clickjacking has been around for a long time, working hand-in-hand with the unwitting person doing the clicking to send them to...
QxSearch hijacker fakes failed installs
August 16, 2019 - Recently, one of the more dominant search hijacker families on our radar has started to display some curious behavior. The family...
Recipe for success: tech support scammers zero in via paid search
June 25, 2019 - Tech support scammers are known for engaging in a game of whack-a-mole with defenders. Case in point, last month there were...
Adware and PUPs families add push notifications as an attack vector
June 13, 2019 - Some existing families of potentially unwanted programs and adware have added browser push notifications to their weapons arsenal. Offering themselves up...
US Congress proposes comprehensive federal data privacy legislation—finally
March 28, 2019 - The United States might be the only country of its size—both in economy and population—to lack a comprehensive data privacy law...
Facebook’s plain text misstep, and other password sins
March 27, 2019 - Two days after an article by Brian Krebs disclosed that hundreds of millions of Facebook account passwords had been stored in...
Facebook’s history betrays its privacy pivot
March 20, 2019 - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg proposed a radical pivot for his company this month: it would start caring—really—about privacy, building out a...
Has two-factor authentication been defeated? A spotlight on 2FA’s latest challenge
January 21, 2019 - Multiple news reports about the defeat of two-factor authentication (2FA) have been making rounds lately. In November 2018, our friends at...
A week in security (December 17 – 23)
December 24, 2018 - Last week on Labs we looked at Fuchsia OS as a possible alternative for Android, explained all the reasons why cybercriminals...
ESTA registration websites still lurk in paid ads on Google
November 28, 2018 - Google has taken direct action against adverts promoting ESTA registration services, often offered by third parties at highly inflated prices. Ads...
