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Yahoo Banner Ads Infecting Visitors With Malware

2008-04-29 19:30:24 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Over the past few days, Yahoo has been exposing visitors to fraudware banner ads and also ads that try to trick them into installing malware. The ads are displayed across numerous web portal sections, including Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Groups and Yahoo Astrology
 
Tags: yahoo, ads, yahoo mail, fraudware banner ads, yahoo astrology, malware, visitors, trick, days
 
 
 
 
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Sony USA PlayStation Website SQL Injected And Redirects Visitors To Fake Anti-Virus Scam

2008-07-02 18:41:28 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Sonys USA PlayStation website, a website with a very large number of daily visitors according to Alexa, had been the victim of an SQL injection attack. Sony PlayStations site is another high trafficked web site that fall victim into the continuing waves of massive botnets (ASProx botnet for example) SQL injections. The purpose of this wave
 
Tags: sql injection attack, sony playstations site, website, massive botnets, sql injections, web site, asprox botnet, daily visitors, victim
 
 
 
 
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BusinessWeek Online Content Hit By SQL Injection, A Total Of 721 Scripts Attempted To Infect Visitors

2008-09-15 22:25:40 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Malicious hackers have broken into several sections of BusinessWeek.com and as a result the content has been infected by Mal/Badsrc-C via SQL injection. The infected pages are related to to jobs and recruitment. Currently hundreds of pages on BusinessWeek.com are being rigged with malicious JavaScript pointing to third-party servers. Visitors to...
 
Tags: sql injection, businessweek, malicious javascript, malicious hackers, content, third-party servers, site execute, visitors, pages
 
 
 
 
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Event Tracking Google Style

2008-07-22 19:46:05 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...visitors request web pages. The GA tracking code basically sets or updates cookies onthe users browser and requests a single-pixel image from the GA servers In the last release of the GA code, Google added Event Tracking.In Google-speak, events are actions that visitors take on a web page that do not generate new pageviews. Examples of these...
 
Tags: event, data model, events data model, track event-data, complex event, google, single event objects, model, objects
 
 
 
 
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory visitor information exposed

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2007-12-11 13:45:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...visitors to the lab between 1990 and 2004 Number Affected about 12,000 Types of Data Personal information including names, addresses, Social Security numbers and dates of birth Breach Description More than a dozen Oak Ridge National Laboratory employees were duped into installing unauthorized software consisting of keyloggers and other...
 
Tags: information, personal information, security, store social security, retrieve information, regular information security, security systems, cyber-security issues, security breach
 
 
 
 
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The reason behind the "We're sorry..." message

2007-07-09 11:54:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...visitors and in turn join the computers of compromised visitors into much larger botnets. This fundamental change from remote attack to client based download of malware formed the basis of the research presented in our first post . In retrospect, it is interesting to see how two seemingly unrelated problems are tightly connected
 
Tags: web servers, vulnerable web servers, message, google, worms, google displays, worms pdf, queries, detect anomalous queries
 
 
 
 
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Have Your Malware In a Timely Fashion

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2007-12-15 08:35:11 by HASH0x89f6724 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...visitors looking for more information during the visit. That's a social engineering trick taking advantage of the momentum by proactively anticipating the rush of visitors to the site. Another such recent combination of tactics aimed to increase the lifecycle of the malware embedded attack by embedding it at Chinese Internet Security Response...
 
Tags: malware, attack, malware attack, malware downloaders, media malware gang, loads, web site, site, php
 
 
 
 
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Massive RealPlayer Exploit Embedded Attack

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2008-01-07 18:58:52 by HASH0x89c7e1c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...visitors to a malicious Web site hosted in China. Although the problem now appears to have been corrected, cached versions of some pages in the press section of CA.com show that earlier this week the site had been redirecting visitors to the uc8010.com domain, which has been serving malicious software since late December, according to Marcus...
 
Tags: exploit, realplayer exploit, uc8010 domain, domain, uc8010, exact exploit, attack uc8010, malware, malware exploitation kits
 
 
 
 
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Using EV Certificates OverStock.com Sees Less Shopping Cart Abandonment

2008-02-14 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Source: Verisign) Overstock.com deployed the VeriSign Secured Seal and VeriSign Extended Validation SSL Certificates to further enhance customers' confidence when transacting on its Web site. As a result of the enhancement, site visitors with browsers that support the new certificate now abandon their shopping cart 8.6% less than other site...
 
Tags: site visitors, verisign, overstock, web site, enhance customers, validation ssl, cart, support, seal