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Home Delivery: The New York Times Serves Up Some Malware

Peter Kafka in Media on September 13, 2009 at 12:57 pm PT

Here’s a front-page story the New York Times would rather not be running: The paper is warning readers to be aware of bogus ads running on its Web site. The paper says “some readers” have seen unauthorized pop-up ads promoting antivirus software on NYTimes.com, and warns visitors who see the ad not to click on it but to restart their browsers instead. While the Times doesn’t spell this out, it has likely had its site hijacked by a “malware” scammer who is trying to trick visitors into installing pernicious software onto their hard drives.

A How-to Guide to How-to Videos

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on May 7, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

It’s not always easy to learn from the information you find online, and how-to videos can be a big help–especially when they’re well-made and discoverable using sites featuring instructional clips.