Firefox Goes Ads Based On Behavioral Show

Firefox, this summer ads based on the user's surfing habits show. The browser will then when you open a new tab "Suggested Tiles" show. These are ads that are based on the user's browsing habits. This would be taken into account with the users of privacy. To make the ads relevant to a limited amount of data sent to Mozilla there.

Since then analyzed and shared with partners from Mozilla. According to the developer, the browser via Suggested Tiles possible to display relevant ads that users' privacy is respected and he or she maintains control over the data. "We believe that users should be able to easily understand what content is promoted, who it is and why they see it," said Mozilla's Darren Herman .

"It is the user who is the owner of the profile. Only a Firefox user can change its own surf history," he notes. Additionally, users can opt out of Suggested Tiles through two mouse clicks. According to Herman, the advertising function will ensure that advertisers with millions of Firefox users to get in touch. Suggested Tiles will soon be added to the beta version of Firefox and end up somewhere this summer in the final version of Firefox. This feature will first be rolled out among American Firefox users.

Microsoft Is Addressing Misleading Advertising

According to Microsoft, there is an increase in the number of misleading advertisements on the Internet, allowing users with malware or unwanted software come into contact. Reason for the software giant to tackle this kind of advertising. The deliberately misleading ads trick users usually have to do something whose consequences are not immediately obvious, such as visiting an infected website or downloading a program that has a "negative impact" on the Internet.

Therefore, Microsoft has a number of requirements established where ads from June 1, 2015 must meet. So ads can not be fooled, they should be distinguished from the website, they may not contain malicious code and may not lead to downloading files. In the event ads do not meet these requirements, Internet Explorer will soon give a warning and the website which can be seen blocking the ads.

Group bombarded SSH Servers With 300,000 Passwords

A group of cyber criminals that has been active since June last year conducts large-scale attacks against SSH servers, whereby through more than 300,000 unique passwords attempting to log in. Once access to the server is obtained finally installed a DDoS rootkit.

Through this rootkit can execute the attackers acquired server DDoS attacks. The cyber criminals by Cisco and Level 3 as "SSHPsychos" and "Group 93" indicated. The group would generate as much traffic with the login attempts that all joint attacks on SSH from other parties combined into nothing fall. The attacks appeared from different netblocks (ranges of IP addresses) to arise. In cooperation with backbone provider Level 3 was decided that the group netblocks disabling used.

As part of the process, Level 3 warned the responsible providers, which the group cybercriminals suddenly used a new network for their scans and attacks. Because of this sudden transition decided Cisco and Level 3 to remove the routing options for both the old and new netblock. According to Cisco, this will "hopefully" slow down the activities of the group for a certain time.

The networking giant notes that "detectors and protectors" can no longer sit on the side as cybercriminals in such flagrant attack systems. However, the measures affect only the part of the Internet that is provided by Level 3. Cisco calls than other parties in order to block malicious traffic from this group on the Internet. "By working together, we can eliminate a group that makes no effort to hide their malicious activities," the company said.