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4th April 06:17
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____/ peterwn on Friday 14 March 2008 19:47 : \____
See: Hackers Attack Trend Micro ,----[ Quote ] | Security vendor Trend Micro has fallen victim to a widespread Web attack that | splashed malicious software onto hundreds of legitimate Web sites in recent | days. | | [...] | | Researchers are still not sure how the attackers are managing to hack these | Web pages, but the pages all seem to use Microsoft's Active Server Page (ASP) | technology, which is used by many Web development programs to create dynamic | HTML pages. A software bug in any of those programs is all the attackers need | to install their malicious code. `---- http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,14...s/article.html 400,000+ infected web pages in a week?! http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/03/14/12/52/22-400-000-infected-web-pages-in-a- I've _cleaned up my_ Web site (it took a long while). And for trolls who spreading BS, thousands of sites including big ones like ZDNet are affected. Hackers launch massive IFRAME attack ,----[ Quote ] | But Danchev was more pessimistic that the attacks could be halted | quickly. "To sum up -- it's a mess," he said. `---- http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=26001482&rid=-50 Before accusing individuals, look at the Web as a whole. And if you're using Windows, be careful of pretty much /ANY/ site you visit. The press is filled with articles about what became a plague and nobody yet knows how many sites are really affected. -- ~~ Best of wishes Roy S. Schestowitz | while (!0==1) echo 'Bill Gates' > /dev/null http://Schestowitz.com | RHAT GNU/Linux | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E 23:00:03 up 50 days, 8:54, 4 users, load average: 1.96, 1.45, 1.43 http://iuron.com - help build a non-profit search engine |
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