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Thousands of Israeli web sites under attack

In the wake of the escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas, it didn't take long before pro-Hamas supporters organized themselves and started to defacing thousands of pro-Israeli web sites in order to use them as vehicles for propaganda -- Israel is meanwhile hijacking TV signals. For the...

Tags: Web, DNS, Web Site, Israel, Web Site Defacement, Attack, TEAM-Evil, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Web Technology, Hacking, Security, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-01-06

Pro-Serbian hacktivists attacking Albanian web sites

The rise of pro-Kosovo web site defacement groups was marked in April, 2008, with a massive web site defacement spreading pro-Kosovo propaganda. The ongoing monitoring of pro-Kosovo hacking groups indicates an ongoing cyberwar between pro-Serbian supporting hacktivists successfully defacing Albanian sites, and building up capabilities by releasing a list of...

Tags: Web, Web Site, Web Site Defacement, Hacking Group, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Hacking, Security, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-05-20

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Hackers hijack DNS records of high profile New Zealand sites

Remember the DNS hijackings of such high profile sites such as Comcast, Photobucket, and ICANN/IANA domains that were taking place last year? Similar incidents are still happening. Today, a web site defacement group known as "The Peace Crew" has successfully hijacked the DNS records for high profile...

Tags: Web, DNS, New Zealand, Web Site, Hacker, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Web Technology, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-04-21

Cyber terrorists to face death penalty in Pakistan

According to a recently signed "Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2008" in Pakistan, any person who commits cyberterrorism causing the death of other people will face death penalty or life imprisonment : "Whoever commits the offence of cyber terrorism and causes death of any person shall be punishable with...

Tags: Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-11-10

Hundreds of Dutch web sites hacked by Islamic hackers

In what appears to be a mass defacement, where several hundred domains take advantage of a shared hosting provider, starting as of this Friday, an Islamic hacker known as nEt^DeViL -- this is not the NetDevilz team that hijacked the DNS records of the ICANN and Photobucket in June --...

Tags: Web, Web Site, Hacker, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Hacking, Security, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress

In the wake of the Russian-Georgian conflict, a week worth of speculations around Russian Internet forums have finally materialized into a coordinated cyber attack against Georgia's Internet infrastructure. The attacks have already managed to compromise several government web sites, with continuing DDoS attacks against numerous other Georgian government sites, prompting...

Tags: Web, Russia, Web Site, Site, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Georgia, Attack, Alania TV, RIA Novosti, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-11

Kaspersky's Malaysian site hacked by Turkish hacker

According to Zone-h.org, Kaspersky's Malaysian site has been defaced by a Turkish hacker during the weekend, through a SQL injection, leaving the following message - "hacked by m0sted And Amen Kaspersky Shop Hax0red No War Turkish Hacker Thanx to Terrorist Crew all team members". "The official Malaysian Kaspersky Antivirus's...

Tags: Web, Malware, Web Site, Site, Hacker, Kaspersky, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Anti-malware blocker, cross-site scripting protections coming in IE 8

When Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 hits the Beta 2 milestone in August, the browser makeover will feature a full-fledged anti-malware blocker and new protections against some forms of cross-site scripting attacks. The existing phishing filter IE 7 has been renamed SmartScreen Filter and will include blacklist-based blocking...

Tags: XSS, Microsoft Internet Explorer, SmartScreen Filter, Web Browsers, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-02

China detains web site defacer spreading earthquake rumors

The Xinhua news agency is reporting that the web site defacer which I mentioned in a previous post regarding the use of web site defacements as tools for psychological operations, has been located and detained in less than a week after he defaced the Seismic Emergency and Public Center of...

Tags: China, Web, Xinhua News Agency, Malware, Web Site, Web Site Defacer, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Channel Management, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-06-19

Photobucket's DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking group

Yesterday, Photobucket the world's most popular photo sharing site according to Hitwise had its DNS records hijacked to return a hacked page courtesy of the NetDevilz hacking group, a Turkish web site defacement group most widely known for its defacement of the adult video site Redtube earlier this year. Photobucket...

Tags: Hacking, DNS, Photobucket, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Phoenix Mars Lander's mission site hacked

With the world's eyes on the latest multimedia streaming straight from Mars, during the weekend the Phoenix Mars Mission's site got hit twice, first by an Ukrainian web site defacer who posted a message at the site's blog, and hours later, the Turkish "sql loverz crew 2008" redirected the official...

Tags: Web, Phoenix Technologies, Web Site, Site, Phoenix Mars Lander Mission, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Comcast's DNS records hijacked, redirect to hacked page

For a couple of hours yesterday, Comcast's Internet Portal (comcast.net) had its DNS records hijacked and a defaced web page was loading from third-party domains. Further investigation into this incident reveals a connection between the group responsible for Comcast's DNS hijacking and previous incidents such as the  defacements of Justin...

Tags: DNS, Comcast Corp., Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-05-29

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

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

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

Barracuda Web Application Controllers Ensure PCI DSS Compliance

Barracuda Web Application Controllers protect networks against unauthorized access, data leakage, site defacement and other malicious attacks by hackers that compromise both the privacy and integrity of vital data. By installing a Barracuda Web Application Controller, businesses that store, process and/or transmit credit card numbers can protect their Web applications...

Tags: Credit Card, Barracuda Networks, PCI, Sales Channel, Hacking, Financial Services, Security, Storage, Hardware, Sales, Finance

White papers 2007-09-01

Barracuda Web Application Firewall Ensures PCI DSS Compliance

Barracuda Web Application Firewalls protect networks against unauthorized access, data leakage, site defacement and other malicious attacks by hackers that compromise both the privacy and integrity of vital data. By installing a Barracuda Web Application Firewall, businesses that store, process and/or transmit credit card numbers can protect their Web applications...

Tags: Credit Card, Barracuda Networks, Barracuda Web Application Firewall, PCI, Sales Channel, Hacking, Financial Services, Security, Storage, Hardware, Sales, Finance

White papers 2007-09-01

State of the Web: A Review of Application Security Trends Over 5 Years

As business has embraced technologies like the Internet to provide an easy and convenient interface to clients, partners and employees alike, applications have become increasingly complex, and heavily integrated with sensitive internal systems. As a result, the impact of a poorly built web site or application is no longer limited...

Tags: Web, Financial, Application Security, Corsaire, Corporate Governance, Intellectual Property, Channel Management, Internet, Corporate Law, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Research & Development, Marketing, Finance

White papers 2007-08-31

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