Future Phishing

[HardOCP News]

This type of article isn’t aimed so much at you as it is the people you know that could use this info. You guys are pretty damn savvy when it comes to security stuff but we all know people that aren’t so knowledgeable. I pass these types of articles on to my relatives all the time, you should too.

Forget the Nigerian prince. Phishing scams are moving beyond the misspelled, far-fetched ruses that clog your in-box and beg for your bank codes. In the year to come, security professionals are warning of bank code-stealing exploits that are much slicker and more convincing--hidden in guises as harmless as a banner ad on a reputable Web site or a message from a friend on a social network.

 

[jmackay]

adblock + noscript ftw

Its reasons like this that I install firefox / adblock plus on my non-tech savy family/friends computers.

 

[MV75]

Blocking ads here = instaban doesn't it? Should be more careful man.

Anyway, no amount of blocking will help you if you're stupid enough to fall for the "social networking" ploys. I avoid that by just not using those services as I'm still not ready to sell my soul, er, entire personal details under their thinly veiled marketing machine, er, "social networking" guises quite just yet.

 

[jmackay]

Blocking ads here = instaban doesn't it? Should be more careful man.

Anyway, no amount of blocking will help you if you're stupid enough to fall for the "social networking" ploys. I avoid that by just not using those services as I'm still not ready to sell my soul, er, entire personal details under their thinly veiled marketing machine, er, "social networking" guises quite just yet.

Whitelist

 

[MatDef]

Whitelist

Nice recovery.

 

[Lethal]

Here are a couple points that really bother me:

- hundreds of ads placed on Web sites by DoubleClick, the largest ad-serving platform on the Web, linked to pages designed to install malware on users' desktops.

DoubleClick serves ads to many mainstream sites. I would hate to think that an ad I clicked on at some place like CNN could infect me.

- cybercriminals are using hidden malicious software downloaded to users' desktops that monitors their online activities and records bank codes

Keyloggers are really scary.

I have been hit with a few "nasties" before, and I consider myself quite conscious of being careful online. No fun.

Makes me long for the good old days when I was still on a Mac and the OS was virtually impervious to the nasties.