by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
It seems the Northumbria Police Authority website (northumbriapoliceauthority(dot)org(dot)uk) was compromised recently to push a “fight the power” message, and it looks like the defacement is the least of their worries as you’ll see shortly.What is...
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
As much as we dread hearing about disasters—the natural ones, most especially—happening on certain parts of the globe where most of our families and friends are, we still keep an eye out for what’s happening. And as much as we dread remembering that there are...
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
Our friends at Zscaler has blogged about a website compromise involving Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank (KVGB), a prominent regional rural bank in India, last February of this year. It then housed a malicious JavaScript (JS) code that redirects visitors to another...
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
Facebook recently published a guide for it’s users on how to secure their online accounts from anything that threatens one’s Facebook security. Among those covered are Wall, Chat, and Comment spams, weak passwords, fake applications, and account hacking....
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
Our engineers over at the AV Labs have spotted recently a deluge of spam about a “traffic ticket” that purports to come from a state department in New York. The said spam has a compressed file attachment that, once extracted, contains a file that bears the...
