Microsoft’s Bing invaded by pharmaceutical scammers

Rogue online pharmacies have found a way to exploit Bing’s advertising program. According to a recently released report by KnujOn and LegitScript, 90% of the Bing sponsored pharmacy ads were rogue ones, shipping counterfeit prescription drugs, with the bogus companies participating part of larger affiliate networks like this one analyzed last year. The report [...]

DefCon Las Vegas 2009

DefCon in Las Vegas is probably the biggest event hackers and even non hackers have been waiting for. Although there were fewer people in this year’s DefCon (around 6,000, my estimate), the presentations, contests, and parties still raked in a huge number of attendees. The DefCon attendees believe that cybercriminals will likely be doing [...]