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HotJobs site flaw leads to Yahoo account theft

See update below for statement from Yahoo. Malicious hackers are exploiting a cross-site scripting flaw on Yahoo's HotJobs site to phish for Yahoo credentials, according to a warning from Netcraft. In the ongoing attack, Netcraft discovered that the vulnerability allows the attacker...

Tags: Attacker, Flaw, Yahoo! Inc., XSS, Authentication, HotJobs, Netcraft, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Registered and active hostnames, 1995-2007

NetCraft published a graph of registered hostnames vs. active hostnames between September 1995 and December 2007. Source: Netcraft by NB

Tags: Netcraft, NB

Blog posts 2008-01-22

Web server trends in December 2007

NetCraft published the graph of Web server trends in December 2007. Source: Netcraft by NB

Tags: Web Server, Server, Netcraft, Web Servers, Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-01-20

Top Web server developers in December 2007

NetCraft published the list of top Web server developers in December 2007. Developer November 2007 Share December 2007 Percent Share Apache 76,028,287 50.76% 76,945,640 49.57% -1.19 Microsoft 53,679,916 35.84% 55,509,223 35.76% -0.08 Google 7,910,879 5.28% 8,558,256 5.51% 0.23 lighttpd 1,505,122...

Tags: Developer, Web Server, Server, Netcraft, Web Servers, Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-01-17

Web server numbers, September 2000 - December 2007

NetCraft published their findings on Web server market between September 2000 and December 2007. Y-axis represent the number of server installations. Source: Netcraft by NB

Tags: Web Server, Netcraft, Web Servers, Servers, Internet, Hardware, NB

Blog posts 2008-01-16

Netcrafttoolbar 1.1.1.8 (Windows)

Netcrafttoolbar blocks phishing sites, helping to protect users from online fraud. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Netcraft, Phishing, Microsoft Windows, Litigation, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations

Software downloads 2007-09-27

Netcraft Toolbar 1.8 (Windows)

The Netcraft Toolbar uses Netcraft's enormous databases of Web site information to show you all the attributes of each site you visit on the Web, including the sites' hosting location, country, longevity and popularity. It also mobilises the Netcraft community into a giant neighbourhood watch scheme to empower the most...

Tags: Netcraft, Phishing, Channel Management, Microsoft Windows, Litigation, Cyberthreats, Web Site Development, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations, Internet

Software downloads 2007-09-20

Pirate Bay hacked, database stolen

Pirate Bay hacked, database stolenLive by the sword, die by the swordDubious practices draw a dubious crowd. I'd bet me left nard that if the site was sitting on a windows box that the Linux/OSS fanbois would be all over this board like flies to a cow pie. Not to...

Tags: Netcraft, Pirate Bay, password, database, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-05-11

Netcraft Toolbar for Firefox 1.1.1.7 (Windows)

The Netcraft Toolbar uses Netcraft's enormous databases of Web site information to show you all the attributes of each site you visit on the Web, including the sites' hosting location, country, longevity and popularity. It also mobilizes the Netcraft community into a giant neighborhood watch scheme to empower the most...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Toolbar, Microsoft Windows, Netcraft, Channel Management, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-03-23

Linkscanner Pro

Exploit Prevention Labs Linkscanner Pro takes a decidedly different approach to identifying and alerting users to potentially harmful Web sites. Rather than scan all the Web sites on the Internet and rank them, as McAfee SiteAdvisor does, Linkscanner Pro scans sites as they download onto your browser, identifying code and...

Tags: Web site development, Phishing, Web technology, Cyberthreats, Web browsers, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Exploit Prevention Labs Linkscanner Pro, LinkScanner Pro, SiteAdvisor, Web site, Web, Netcraft, LinkScanner

Product reviews 2007-02-17

Netcraft Toolbar

Known more for its network tools, Netcraft also provides a free toolbar for Firefox and Internet Explorer that checks Web sites for malicious or suspicious content. It stops URLs containing characters designed to deceive, maintains navigational controls within a browser, and displays a site's hosting location--for example, a local U.S....

Tags: Web browsers, Netcraft, toolbar, Netcraft Toolbar

Product reviews 2007-02-15

Canadian nuclear safety site defaced by hacker

Canadian nuclear safety site defaced by hackerCanadian nuclear safety site defaced by hackerThey must have been running linux!LOL ROTFLMAO PIP!!!Man, if they ever catch this guy...Talk about being made an example of. They will grill his Testicles in public.not good, eh?wow, what bad news for the web admin team...

Tags: Hacking, Linux, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows NT, worker, Netcraft, nuclear safety site, safety site, hacker, Canadian nuclear safety site

Discussion threads 2007-02-08

Norton Confidential beta

Symantec has released a public beta of its new transaction security software, Norton Confidential. This new product reflects the inclusion of transaction security applications from Whole Security, which Symantec bought last year. However, the integration is far from smooth. For a look inside, see our Norton Confidential beta slide show.Despite...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Web browsers, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Symantec Corp., Norton Co., Norton Confidential, phishing, Netcraft, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Product reviews 2006-08-09

System glitches hit two banks' online services

System glitches hit two banks' online servicesSystem glitches hit two banks' online servicesThey must have been using linux on those systems. I hope they learn from their mistakes.Wamu Still downAs of 12:20 PST. They changed their page from "scheduled maintenance" to "temporarily unavailable".Not An Outage -- An AttackI...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Financial services, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, WaMu, Washington Mutual Inc., bank, Linux, Netcraft, WaMu.com

Discussion threads 2006-07-26

Mambo and Joomla do the Chicken Dance

Netcraft is reporting that the opensource content management system Mambo and its errant step daughter Joomla both are vulnerable to simple SQL insertion attacks. This means that a hacker can use form fields to crack into the server hosting the website. Both sites have posted security updates. Mambo...

Tags: Mambo, Joomla

Blog posts 2006-07-02

Hacker may have pilfered personal data from USDA

Hacker may have pilfered personal data from USDASo, what else is new?If this is type of government that leaves a president's travel itinerary in the trash, we might as well consider our SSNs opensource.the government is protecting the ID thievesMay be if a hacker steals the identity info of all...

Tags: Web servers, Linux, Netcraft, U.S. Department of Agriculture, personal data, server, government

Discussion threads 2006-06-22

2.76 mln new domains bought in June 2005

Between June 2005 and July 2005 2.76 mln Internet domains were registered, reports NetCraft. According to the Web server survey done by the company, 67,571,581 sites were alive. June 2005 took the second place in terms of domain name registration, in March 2003 3.3 mln domains were registered. NetCraft attributed...

Tags: domain, Netcraft

Blog posts 2005-07-03

Antiphishing toolbar for Firefox released

Antiphishing toolbar for Firefox releasedMy Firefox blocked installation ?Why did my Firefox block the pop up that would allow installation of the toolbar? That doesn't seem quite right as it has never happened that way before when dnlding new software.Houston...Do we have a problem?This thing is Adware! - You can't...

Tags: Web browsers, Viruses and worms, toolbar, Netcraft, phishing, EULA, Web site, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2005-05-26

Netcraft goes fishing for phishers

Netcraft goes fishing for phishersHere's the latest phishing scam...I've already blocked the latest "Important Online Citizens Banking Alert" phishing scam 100 times over from my email server. Now if Netcraft can also analyse the site and auto-notify the abuse account for the ISP that would be sweet! So far the...

Tags: Financial services, bank, credit card, phishing, Netcraft

Discussion threads 2004-12-30

As election nears, Web's grass roots still growing

As election nears, Web's grass roots still growingBush is paranoid, site rejects foreign IPsTrouble with Bush's site is it blocks foreign IP addresses, as though his campaign is top secret.http://news.netcraft.com/Kind of paranoid if you ask me.Only six days left....and the Nazi war criminal/war profiteering, election rigging, compassionate torturizing, CIA operative-outing,...

Tags: SECURITY, Web, Netcraft

Discussion threads 2004-10-27