Fake CNN news items malware campaign spreading rapidly by ZDNet‘s Dancho Danchev — A currently active malware campaign taking advantage of a known social engineering tactic, namely, to entice the spammed user into clicking on a site with a fake news item in order to trick them into installing a fake Flash player (flashupdate.exe; get_flash_update.exe and watchmovie.mpg.exe), was massively spammed last night, with MX Logic alone detecting over [...]
I submitted a panel for next years SXSW Conference. The title is:
Challenges of Implementing RIAs with Accessibility
“How to balance rich online experiences while trying to stick to standards compliance, particularly in the wake of the pending Target lawsuit around accessibility. The panel will discuss fundamental development principals that can help ensure that accessibility is not an afterthought, but is baked into the process.”
Voting for all panels is open to the public, if you would like to see this panel (It’s mine), or any of the other panels listed, please take the time to register and vote! Just think of it as a warm up for November.
Voting is open until August 29th.
You can register here:
http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/
Max is coming up in November. Submissions for the MAX awards are now being accepted now thru August 25th. The categories include:
Advertising and Branding, Public Sector, Enterprise, Mobility and Devices, RIA, Video. You can submit your nominations here:
Web worms squirm through Facebook, MySpace by ZDNet‘s Ryan Naraine — My colleagues at Kaspersky Lab (see disclosure) have intercepted two new worms squirming through MySpace and Facebook, using social engineering lures to plant malware on Windows systems. The worms propagate via the comments features on the two popular social networks, using video lures and fake Flash Player downloads to trick end users into installing malicious executables. As [...]
Sapient will be hosting an AIGA Studio Tour in LA next Tuesday, August 5th. There is a limited amount of audience member spaces but there are a couple still open.
This is a great opportunity to show what Sapient Interactive has been doing, specifically to the LA community. We will continue to reach out over the next couple of months in and around Southern California
to engage with the community at large!
If you are interested in attending the event details can be found here
http://aigalosangeles.org/events/2008/08/studio-tour-sap.php
To find out more about AIGA go here
http://www.aiga.org/