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Web site of U.K. landmark hacked to serve malware

2008-02-08 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b58d9c in Network World on Security
 
The Web site of one of the U.K.'s most famous landmarks, the Forth Road Bridge, has been torn open in embarrassing fashion to serve malware, researchers are reporting
 
Tags: serve malware, web site, road bridge, famous landmarks, fashion, researchers, torn
 
 
 
 
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Fake Directory Listings Acquiring Traffic to Serve Malware

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2008-04-30 03:17:00 by HASH0x8b233c0 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...serve malware or redirect to live exploit URLs in an internal ecosystem that not even a search engine's crawlers would bother crawling. What's the trick in here? Using image files as bites to malware binaries, and acquiring traffic by generating fake directory indexes with hundreds of thousands of popular or segment specific keywords in the...
 
Tags: fake directory, malicious, fake directory indexes, non-malicious download, live exploit urls, file, malicious magic, load image files, image files
 
 
 
 
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U.K's FETA Serving Malware

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2008-02-12 09:13:31 by HASH0x8b1c460 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...serve malware The website of one of the UK's most famous landmarks, the Forth Road Bridge, has been torn open in embarrassing fashion to serve malware, researchers are reporting. According to the security blog of a small consultancy, Roundtrip Solutions, the website is now hosting an 'obfuscated' Javascript hack created using the Neosploit...
 
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U.S. Arms Dealer Tests Legal Bounds in Middle East Arms Bazaar

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2008-07-03 22:00:00 by Sharon Weinberger in Wired Security
...serve as middlemen to facilitate weapons sales between countries -- were largely the stuff of spy thrillers. Unlike traditional American defense companies, like Lockheed Martin or Boeing, which typically sell weapons directly to NATO countries or other governments regarded as friendly to the United States, brokers are often small outfits run...
 
Tags: arms brokers, brokers, infamous arms brokers, defense, firm defense solutions, arms, arms trade, international arms trade, russian weapons suppliers
 
 
 
 
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Web Server Software and Malware

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2007-06-05 09:30:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
...server software to provide insight into how server software is correlated to servers hosting malware binaries or engaging in drive-by-downloads We determine server operating system by examining the 'Server:' HTTP header reported by most web servers. A survey of servers running roughly 80 million domain names reveals the web server software...
 
Tags: servers serve malware, servers, apache servers, malicious servers, web server software, server software, web servers, microsoft iis, microsoft iis features
 
 
 
 
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The Pseudo "Real Players"

2008-01-14 18:12:00 by HASH0x86ec1f0 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
 
...serve a fake 404 error message but continue the campaign. However, in RBN's case, only the indexes were serving the fake account suspended messages, but the campaign was still active on the rest of the internal pages. In the RealPlayer's campaign case, the 404 error messages themselves were embedded with the same IFRAMEs as well, in order to...
 
Tags: main campaign domains, domains, campaign, real players, attack, error, malware attack, error messages, realplayer
 
 
 
 
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Donor personal information was on Lifeblood stolen laptop

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2008-02-14 10:17:22 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...serve, but they really don't serve the victims well when they don't take the time to properly secure the information they collect I cannot think of a good alternative to laptop encryption. Why won't Lifeblood encrypt confidential data at rest Past Breaches Unknown
 
Tags: mobile blood collection, blood, personal information, memorial blood centers, blood saves lives, blood type, lifebloods blood donors, lifeblood, information
 
 
 
 
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CHECKLISTS ARE NOT FOR DUMMIES, BUT THEY SURE ARE DUMB!

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2008-06-11 13:51:33 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
...serve to reduce some level of variability in a process Second , they can help us develop a State of Nature. PCI or the ISO are very nice checklists that, once youre done, certifies that you have the existence of a certain amount of control. Again, this serves to reduce some level of variability, comparing you to a best practice And so They...
 
Tags: checklists, article checklists, article, mmmmm-mmmmmmm checklists, nice checklists, provide analysis, provide, nature, nature statement
 
 
 
 
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Summarizing June's Threatscape

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2008-07-01 07:05:01 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Serve Malware - In a rare instance of a creative attack combining typosquatting in order to impersonate ImageShack and serve malware by redirecting users to an image file that is actually forwarding to the binary, I was recently tipped by the folks at TrendMicro who are also following this that the site is up and running again. Not for long ...
 
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