Archive for the ‘Security’ Category
I ran across this presentation slide-deck recently. It provides a thorough insight into the their underlying platforms, technology & infrastructure implementation (including some screen shots of their internal cloud management platform, based on Amazon’s AWS). But what has this to do with Advertising Operations? Well, I feel the similarities occur when thinking about building scalable [...]
So, having just returned from a great Admonsters Publisher Event in Amsterdam I’ll be posting up quite a few related articles and links.There was a huge amount of discussion surrounding Real Time Bidding (RTB) platforms. As a publisher we rarely get to see some of the inner-workings of how these systems work but luckily there [...]
Google have released a ‘network panel‘ to their Developer Tools that acts in a very similar way to other HTTP tracing tools like httpFox and httpWatch. This is a very welcome addition to an excellent set of tools for Chrome and means you’ll easily be able to trace what calls are being made from adtags [...]
The excellent malwaredomains.com highlights a story coming from James McQuaid at securehomenetwork.blogspot.com about a potential huge malware attack. The article describes a huge SEO malware campaign utilizing thousands of machine-generated domains combining black hat SEO poisoning with virulent malware infections. http://securehomenetwork.blogspot.com/2011/01/massive-blackhat-seo-malware-campaign.html It occurs to me that the timing is very apt. As we head towards [...]
Ghostery is a new free service/browser-plugin for IE, Firefox & Chrome which highlights many tracking, behavioural & analytics tags (commonly referred to as web-bugs or pixels) on a site’s page. More importantly from our industry’s perspective is that it can also act as filtering mechanism and gives the user direct access to block any/all of [...]
Webmonkey have secured themselves some good video interviews last week at Web 2.0 Expo. Here Douglas Crockford talks about the future of Javascript & HTML5.
Kaspersky is reporting that it’s AntiVirus solution is flagging Google Adsense ads as being infected with the virus Trojan.JS.Redirector.ar but which in fact are false-positives. The error message looks like this “The requested object is infected with the virus Trojan.JS.Redirector.ar” Here’s what they have to say about the mater: “Kaspersky Lab acknowledges a false positive [...]
A number of years ago I had a meeting with OneVision, a company used in newspaper/print for pre-production/press Quality Assurance amongst others things. At the time we were looking at trying to resolve issues with badly coded flash ads, where the clickTag() hadn’t been set properly or been set to CLICKTAG() or cLiCKTag() or some [...]
Article from Techrepublic explaining ‘Flash Cookies’, or rather, Flash Shared Objects: Original article here: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/itdojo/?p=1424&tag=nl.e101
Mcafee are reporting that Adobe Reader and Flash are to be prime targets for criminal hackers next in 2010. This on the back of this report: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/22/mass_flash_file_vulnerability/ and http://websecurity.com.ua/3789/ My personal take on this is that yes, it could be used as a potential XSS but invariabaly it would have meant that the original 3rd [...]
