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Design flaws, besides vulnerabilities, hurt banking sites

2008-07-23 00:00:00 by HASH0x8472e80 in Network World on Security
 
Banking Web sites suffer from design flaws that undermine their security, exclusive of software vulnerabilities, according to a University of Michigan study to be released Friday
 
Tags: design flaws, web sites suffer, michigan study, software vulnerabilities, university, friday, undermine, security, exclusive
 
 
 
 
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Cached Malware Embedded Sites

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2007-12-16 18:18:26 by HASH0x8a09e44 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...sites who were cleaned before they could be analyzed, mainly popular sites who get crawled several times daily. However, Yahoo's and MSN's search engines, with MSN providing Archive.org type of historical crawling content, have been an invaluable resource in providing the actionable historical intelligence in the form of what was embedded at...
 
Tags: sites, sites wrongly, web sites, malware, malicious site, site, single site offers, sites notification services, popular sites
 
 
 
 
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Fake Porn Sites Serving Malware - Part Two

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2008-07-08 03:24:00 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...sites. And since some of the fake sites are actual redirectors, periodically revisting them leads to more fake codecs and even more actionable intelligence into the nature of their practices, and which are the ISPs proving them with hosting services for several consecutive years The main redirector in this campaign popular-adult.com is also...
 
Tags: net, malware, porn-party, porn-contact, fake porn sites, porn-play, porn-plus, porndrive, pornhelp
 
 
 
 
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Monetizing Compromised Web Sites

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2008-07-14 03:26:24 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...sites are largely getting monetized these days, starting from hosting blackhat SEO junk pages, to redirecting to live exploit URLs and fake codecs where revenue is earned through their participation in an affiliate business model With The Africa Middle Market Fund's site monetized by web site defacers who defaced it "in between" the blackhat...
 
Tags: sites, rogue sites, web, net, web site defacers, site, fake porn sites, profile site, redirector
 
 
 
 
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More CNET Sites Under IFRAME Attack

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2008-03-06 10:50:57 by HASH0x8b1424c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...sites are involved in the campaign, including ZDNet's international sites such as, ZDNet India, ZDNet U.K, and ZDNet Australia, but the abovementioned ones. And so, we have three more sites part of CNET Networks' portfolio, getting injected with more IFRAMEs, abusing their search engine's local caching, and storing of any keyword feature , in...
 
Tags: iframe, cnet sites, sites, iframe-ed pages, pages, cnet, iframe redirects, iframe campaign, campaign
 
 
 
 
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Fake Porn Sites Serving Malware

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2008-06-25 12:16:20 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...sites, consisting of over twenty different domains serving the usual Zlob malware variants, we have a decent abuse of a template for a porn site The easy of management of such domain farms and the availability of templates for high trafficked topic segments such as celebrities and pornography, continue contributing to the increasing number...
 
Tags: net, fake porn sites, malware, about-adult, scan-porn, zlob malware variant, name-adult, useporn, porn-the
 
 
 
 
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Lithuania Attacked by Russian Hacktivists, 300 Sites Defaced

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2008-07-07 01:19:13 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...sites hosted on the same ISP, an upcoming attack that was largely anticipated due to the on purposely escalated online tensions out of Lithuan's accepted legislation banning communist symbols across the counry, once again demonstrates information warfare building capabilities in action Moreover, the attack is again relying on common...
 
Tags: lithuania, attack lithuania surprisingly, estonia, estonia attack, sites, attack, attack strategy, attacks based, attacks
 
 
 
 
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More High Profile Sites IFRAME Injected

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2008-03-12 09:49:36 by HASH0x8b74b5c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...sites targeted by the same group within the past 48 hours, with number of locally cached and IFRAME injected pages within their search engines NCSU Libraries - lib.ncsu.edu - 372,000 pages FullDownloads.us - fulldownloads.us - 13,000 pages Central Statistics Office Ireland - cso.ie - 10,300 pages DBLife Frontpage - dblife.cs.wisc.edu -...
 
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Web-based malware on legit sites soars

2008-06-08 06:50:05 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Study found 68 percent of all internet-based malware was now being hosted on legitimate sites."The compromise techniques being used now allow hackers to quickly 'colonise' thousands of legitimate sites, from big brand-name sites, to smaller but equally legitimate sites
 
Tags: sites, brand-name sites, malware, compromise techniques, thousands, percent, colonise, study, quickly