Security News

Online Advertising: Hackers' Little Helper
2018-01-24 12:18

Network of Fake Ad Agencies Distributed 1 Billion Bad Ads, Researchers FindThe web may be largely funded thanks to online advertising, but the threat posted by malicious advertisements continue to...

Mobile Advertising Firm Found Tracking Users To Pay $950K (Threatpost)
2016-06-23 16:06

A mobile advertising company that settled charges with the Federal Trade Commission this week will pay nearly $1M after it was determined the company tracked customers – including children –...

McAfee uses web beacons that can be used to track and serve advertising to users (Help Net Security)
2016-03-17 20:18

A test of seven OEM laptops running Windows has shown a consistent privacy and security issues, including an interesting revelation that the McAfee Antivirus running on six of them is using web...