Report: Internet Explorer 9 leads in socially-engineered malware protection

February 14, 2012 – 6:17 pm

By Dancho Danchev According to a newly released report from NSS Labs, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 outperforms competing browsers in protecting against socially engineered malware. More details:

By ddanchev | Posted in Exploits, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, malware, social engineering, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

This blackhole exploit kit gives you Windows Media Player and a whole lot more

November 11, 2011 – 10:11 am

By Mike Johnson As a follow-up to the Blackhole Exploit posting, I thought I would share one aspect of my job that I truely enjoy: Discovery. While investigating some active urls being served up via a blackhole kit, I noticed something quite odd, as I would end up on sites that had malicious code injected into their webpages. Once [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Destructive behavior, Exploits, Internet Explorer, malware, Threat Research, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

Christmas IE Zero-Day Thwarted. Ho ho ho.

December 23, 2010 – 1:32 pm

By Andrew Brandt Yesterday, two different 0 day exploits against Internet Explorer were published, just in time for the holidays when most of you (and many security researchers as well) are taking time off from work. The exploit, named CVE-2010-3971, is fairly serious, affecting the latest builds of IE versions 6 through 8. Well, I’d [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Destructive behavior, Enterprises, Internet Explorer, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)
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