Several Web sites selling made-to-order Trojan horses to hackers have been shut down, the two cooperating security companies who led the investigation said Wednesday.
U.S.-based RSA Security and Spain’s Panda Software collaborated in the effort to identify, locate, and shutter five sites. Three were marketing la carte Trojans for launching targeted identity theft attacks against users of specific financial institutions, while two were sites where the buyers
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I located a new security portal that shows some promise. There is a daily security blog that contains good information and filters a lot of the less relevant security news.
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If you’ve been interested in internet marketing for more than 5 minutes I’m sure you must have already come across several of the innumerable variations on the “If you’re looking for a foolproof, easy way to make money online, this is it!” line.
But trite as it is, and as much as I want to avoid […] (more…)
The big news this weekend is Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick for $3.1 billion–reportedly beating out Microsoft and Yahoo for one of the top online advertising providers. The media is abuzz with discussions on why Google paid so much (DoubleClick revenues are fuzzy, but reports put it somewhere between $150 million and $300 million per year) and what the acquisition means to the industry. I figured I’d throw in my two cents…
The ad banner space is far more mature than search so it’s unlikely Google expects DoubleClick’s business to grow at anywhere near the (more…)
