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Zone-H web defacement data shows platforms don't matter

Web defacement archive Zone-H.org has produced a comprehensive three-year report on Web Server defacements for 2005 to 2007.  What makes the Zone-H archive unique is that the data is gathered from the hackers/defacers themselves and every defaced website is confirmed and mirrored on Zone-H permanently. Contrary to...

Tags: Web, Defacement, Web Site, News, Microsoft IIS Server, Zone-H, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-03-17

Turkish hackers go on defacement rampage

Turkish hackers go on defacement rampageWhat would be a resolutionAsking Coders not to be sloppy with Code is like asking Windows to reduce their memory requirements on their next release. Not very likely to happen.However, how else are we supposed to draw easily changeable data into an application without...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, Turkish Hackers, defacement, desktop Linux, Linux

Discussion threads 2006-05-31

Does OS matter anymore for security?

Whenever I've touched on the sensitive topic of Linux vs. Windows or Apache vs. Microsoft IIS security, I expected the usual flame treatment and nasty name calling to fly. It's usually taken as gospel in many IT circles to assume that Windows Security is an oxymoron; anyone who dares...

Tags: Zone-H, server, operating system

Blog posts 2005-07-06

Additional Resources

Recent CNN Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack explained

According to Netcraft: "The CNN News website has twice been affected since an earlier distributed denial of service attack last Thursday. CNN fixed Thursday's attack by limiting the number of users who could access the site from specific geographical areas. Subsequently, an attack was purportedly organised to...

Tags: Denial Of Service, Distributed Denial Of Service, CNN, Attack, Danchev, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-04-23

News to know: Apple; Hakia; EclipseCon; ActiveX security

Notable headlines: David Morgenstern: Did Microsoft beat Apple to dual-sided touch technology? Jason O'Grady: Apple bumps Airport Express to 802.11n Paul Miller: hakia licenses OntoSem technology to third parties Paula Rooney: Run-time rival for Java, .NET? Dana Gardner: EclipseCon debuts...

Tags: Security, Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., ActiveX, Data Centers, Semantic Web, Storage, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-18

Zone-H web defacement data shows platforms don't matter

Zone-H web defacement data shows platforms don't matterSome people will always screamSome people will always scream. They need something to scream about.But you are right that it is the admin and programmer at the end of the day that determines security.There's bound to be a spikewhen people come over...

Tags: Web site development, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft IIS Server, Apache Software Foundation, Zone-H, Web, Web site, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-03-17

Hacking for profit. SEO techniques.

I am traveling for the next two weeks. Today I write from the banks of the Thames in Marlow, England, a town that inspires writing if Jerome K. Jerome and Mary Shelley are any indication. Hackers have attacked Al Gore's website, but in an unusual...

Tags: Technique, Search Engine Optimization, Google Inc., Site, Hacking, Blogging, Security, Internet, Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2007-11-27

MSNBC Turkish site caught serving malware

Websense is reporting that MSNBC's Turkish site was caught in a mass defacement hacker attack that redirected readers to exploit servers hosted in China. From a Websense alert: At the time of this writing, the site was infected with malicious code designed to infect the...

Tags: Websense Inc., Malware, MSNBC, Site, SANS Internet Storm Center, Scripting Languages, Security, Viruses And Worms, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-11-07

Catbird secures virtualized environments

A short while ago, I had a wonderful conversation with Edmundo Costa, CEO, and Tamra Newberger, VP of marketing, of Catbird , about a new product they were launching. Since I've spoken with them many times in the past when they were associated with Tarantella and the Santa Cruz Operation,...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-07-05

Google on Firefox 2.0: Get it now!

Google recommends "upgrading to the new, safer Firefox 2.0," Big time! The Firefox 2.0 "recommended," of course is "Optimized for Google," with the Google Toolbar.I announced Googles new homepage self-promotional strategy last month in "Google defiles homepage?": Google can no longer hold up the vaunted, pristine Google homepage as virgin...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Software Applications, Self-Promotion, Google, Search

Blog posts 2006-12-08

Google trumps Yahoo

It's official: Google over Yahoo, 2 to 1. Google is deemed to celebrate Halloween better than Yahoo. In a direct, logo to logo competition, Google's homepage Halloween design was favored by discriminating ZDNet readers over Yahoo's homepage Halloween design, with more than 500 votes tallied at this Digital Micro-Markets Blog!Check out the competing...

Tags: Culture, Legal, Google, Yahoo, Yellow Pages, Self-Promotion, Copyright, Content

Blog posts 2006-11-04

Google changing 'philosophy'

In “Google wants to pay you to improve Google usability” I recount the origins of Google’s “rather empty homepage.” In “Google defiles homepage?” yesterday, however, I reported that Google’s “virgin” homepage may be on the brink of extinction.  "The Science and Art of User Experience at Google" was the topic...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-11-02

GoDaddy hosting customers victim to massive hack

GoDaddy hosting customers victim to massive hackFinally George gets it right...and begins bringing us warnings about Microsoft IIS web hosting. It's like I've been telling people for years, go with Unix or LAMP for hosting. All MS products have big-time flaws just waiting to be exploited. Please! Who doesn't know...

Tags: SECURITY, GoDaddy, Microsoft IIS Server

Discussion threads 2006-06-02

GoDaddy hosting customers victim to massive hack

[Updated 1:17 PM] Earlier this week I blogged about the case of Turkish hackers defacing a record number of websites. 38,500 sites were defaced in a single day by hacker iSKORPiTX who used an automated mechanism to attack what appeared to be an exploit in a sloppy implementation of...

Tags: GoDaddy

Blog posts 2006-06-02

Turkish hackers go on defacement rampage

Two Sony websites were hacked yesterday by a Turkish hacker (thanks to Roberto Preatoni of Zone-H.org for heads up and explanation). The two site URLs are:http://sonymusic.it/index.php http://sonymusicstudios.co.uk/ As of 12:30 AM Pacific Standard time on the USA west coast, the handy work is still there for all to see....

Tags: Turkish, Zone-H.org

Blog posts 2006-05-31

Thou Shalt Not Ignore Security Risks When Choosing Platforms

Thou Shalt Not Ignore Security Risks When Choosing PlatformsSecurity isn't about platformsIt is a fact that Linux systems get hacked more than Windows by confirmed defacements. www.zone-h.org.Most hacks come through via bad application coding in things like bad Perl or bad ASP. Second on the list is bad...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, Linux

Discussion threads 2006-04-03

University nixes Mac hacker contest

University nixes Mac hacker contestWhy and why herePublish it to slashdot.org and see how you go;-)"Though I don't consider myself a zealot but someone mimicking Dave's challenge with Windows to see how it fairs under the same challenge."Yet you are using windows server, whereas it was the desktop version of...

Tags: SECURITY, Apple Macintosh, Well Windows, FUD, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-03-08

Threat Hierarchy

I used to do a lot of breakfast seminars. Well, I still do a lot of breakfast seminars. But I used to have a slide that depicted the threat hierarchy. It was a list from low threat to high threat. I did not create it. I am sure...

Tags: Information Warfare, Hacktivism, Experimentation

Blog posts 2005-10-10

OpenSUSE -the name says too much

OpenSUSE -the name says too muchOK...So you have a beef with Open Solaris too? I dont see that mentioned.All that I've been reading about opensuse on newsgroups and blogs has been very positive.Times change.. Apparently dinosaurs dont.Marketing openOpen SuSe is a wayfree is good to get more people using it....

Tags: Marketing research, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, SuSE Linux, BSD, Now Let, Novell OpenSuse, marketing, Linux, Open-SUSE

Discussion threads 2005-09-07

Software flaws--the root of evil

Software flaws--the root of evilVERY SIMPLE SOLUTION - FINE MICROSUCKS $100 BILLION !...and ALL software mfgs. who distribute insecure, BUG RIDDEN, Piss Poor code and O/Ss!If MICROSUCKS was PROPERLY prosecuted for CONSUMER FRAUD, which they have knowingly committed since Windows was released to the public WITHOUT FULL DISCLOSURE of the...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, Microsoft Corp., security, Piss Poor, root cause, O/S

Discussion threads 2005-06-15