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by René | May 2, 2007 at 10:15 am
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Popular Web sites targeted by crooks
SAN DIEGO, May 2 (UPI) -- A San Diego company says ordinary Web sites are becoming greater targets for Internet criminals looking to corrupt users' computers.
Dan Hubbard, vice president of security research at Websense, said Web
sites "from top-tier names to mom-and-pop bakery shops" are being
targeted by advertisements that take advantage of the holes in the
Internet Explorer browser to implant a tiny program that communicates
with a "mother ship" server, often in Russia or China, USA Today
reported Wednesday.
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at 10:32 on May 2nd, 2007
René, thanks for giving this one more exposure! The main security risk is in clicking certain AdWords, which malefactors have planted to lure net surfers to their computers' doom. The trapdoor spiders of the Internet.