January 2009

According to the PCMag Security Watch blog (here), Major League Baseball’s official site is serving up malicious ads again. This happened in November 2007 when DoubleClick (one of the larger internet ad companies) had its ad network compromised, allowing fake anti-spyware ads to be shown on some highly visible legitimate sites, including MLB.com, NHL.com, the Phillies official site, and others. Now it seems that the ad network has been compromised again, as the malicious ads are once again showing up on MLB.com. Sunbelt (a major security vendor and research company) suggests that you stay away from the site for a few days until the ads are taken down. Looks like this new year won’t be any different from last year in terms of internet threats…

Happy new year! I hope everyone had a good holiday. To start off the new year, we are developing several presentations to help educate users in basic internet safety and security. We hope that through these presentations,  you will be able to avoid the most common mistakes that lead to a malware-infested computer. Any feedback that you might have would be greatly appreciated, both on the idea of these presentations and also any points or topics you may want us to cover.