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NetDevilz, a Turkish hacker group has struck again and this time right at the top. Recently they hacked Photobucket and yesterday they attacked and defaced THE domains that should be secure – ICANN and IANA.
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Malware: IFRAME attacks? Other Emerging Threats for 2008 |
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A few years ago the content management system applications like PHP-Nuke experienced a wave of IFRAME injection attacks, including SQL injection, and other kinds of nasties. On February 14th, I had the pleasure to giving a presentation to the Multi State ISAC (MS-ISAC) about this year's Emerging Threats (see here for details and the presentation).
Legit websites and domains was on the list of topics whereby criminals would be using them to spread malware and conduct criminal activities. I'm sure you've been reading the news about how many legit websites (and large companies) are being owned by iframe attacks as I write this (some threads can be found here.
Security doesn't happen just at the consumer desktop, nor the business desktop, but also at the web server and the very applications and daemons that run them. Its a full layered approach. When going on the Net, caution is urged.
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Websites defaced by anti- and pro-war attackers |
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Independent attackers, who want to get a message across, have started defacing web sites in the run-up to, and also after, the start of the war against Iraq last week.
Three categories of attackers have been noticed by the anti-virus firm F-Secure:
Patriotic Americans, who want to join the war but have no others means to do so except by attacking the virtual enemy. This may take the form of launching a distributed denial-of-service attack against the email server of the Iraqi embassy or websites of Iraqi companies.
Islamic extremist groups from around the world who are trying to fight back against the perceived enemy by launching attacks against US sites and especially .mil websites.
Peace activists who are just against the war. Several computer viruses have been released which carry an anti-war message or are trying to use the situation otherwise for their own advantage.
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Political messages posted to NASA Web pages
By Paul Roberts
Making a tragic day even worse, several servers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) were broken into on Saturday by a group of hackers protesting U.S. policy in the Middle East.
Web pages hosted on those servers were replaced with pages displaying a political message critical of U.S. policy in Iraq , according to a report by UK security company mi2g and confirmed by a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) spokesman.
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Editorials: Number of Hacking Web Sites Grows 45 Percent |
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Hacking tools used by employees within organizations may be the biggest security threat to emerge this year, leading to increased vulnerabilities, lost data, and wasted time and resources, reports Websense Inc.
Websense, the worldwide leader of employee Internet management (EIM) solutions, reports that the number of hacking Web sites has increased 45 percent in the last 12 months, now totaling approximately 6,000 Web sites, encompassing more than one million pages of content. The dramatic spike may signal an increasing internal security risk for organizations worldwide.
Nearly 90 percent of U.S. businesses and government agencies suffered hacker attacks in the last year, according to Newsbytes, while 80 percent of network security managers claim their biggest security threat comes from their own employees, according to a survey conducted at this year's Gartner Information Security Conference.
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