McAfee whitepaper on browser attacks

Frankly to say, I love McAfee so much. They are one of the giant security vendor that frequently published so many whitepaper recently. The document is very informative for the current security threat and trend. It also give me lots of inspiration how the security so important to our security life.

Web Browsers: An Emerging Platform Under Attack
“The widespread use of highly interactive “rich client” web applications for e-commerce, business networking, and online collaboration has finally catapulted web browsers from straightforward HTML viewers to a full-blown software platform. And as corporate users are performing a significant portion of their work on the web, whether it’s researching or collaborating, the safety of the underlying platform is critical to the company’s success. ”

Other areas the paper covers include:

• The shift in spam to mainly malicious web link usage

• “Web 2.0” sites—whether weblogs, social networking or portal sites—are increasingly spammed with links to malicious sites

• Legitimate sites are compromised and misused to either host malicious code or link to a malicious website

• Use of malicious video banners placed in advertisement networks

• Use of popular search terms to advertise and drive (search query) traffic to a malicious website. In a recent case in Germany, attackers used Google AdWords to attract users who searched for “flash player” to the attacker’s fake Adobe-look-alike site

If you wondering where can download the whitepaper, you can get entirely from http://www.mcafee.com/us/threat_center/white_paper.html

P/S: I am not work for McAfee, just say something based on my personal judgement.