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[matthewbuckland.com] matthewbuckland.com » Matthew 1, Hackers 0: I’d view source my blog regularly to check for unsolicited iframes. I found two bits of code in my header (about eight lines of fairly hectic PHP starting with “wp_remote_fopen procedure”) and then a second bit of code on my main index page (the illegal iframe, calling up a dodgy site called “web-analizer.****”).

[TechNewsWorld] Technology News: Social Networking: Facebook: A Tempting Danger ...: It's apparently possible to hack into someone's Facebook account without even meaning to, as a Georgia family recently discovered. After signing on through a cellphone using their own names and passwords, they were given access to an account belonging to a complete stranger.

[Dominic Stoughton's Blog] China Alarmed by Security Threat From Internet: “It was because online warfare launched by America, via YouTube video and Twitter micro-blogging, spread rumors, created splits, stirred up and sowed discord.”

[Darknet - The Darkside] Hacked Embassy Websites Delivering Malware | Darknet - The Darkside: Again it just goes to show that a lot of malicious attacks are based around human elements, in this case trust. People will naturally trust an Embassy website, so if you embed it with a message to download some kind of protective software…a lot of people will do it.

[i4MK] PandaLabs 2009 - Annual Report « i4MK: “Other types of attacks involve direct hacking of websites. In January the webpage of the Indian Embassy in Spain was attacked .

[eBharat - Discover Bharat - Events Feed] nullcon Goa 2010 Security Hacking Conference, Goa - Goa Events ...: Anonymous - Desi Special(pronounced pay-sul, as in chai) Hacking +1. Abhisek Datta - Software Fuzzing with Wireplay 2.

[Bits] Hackers Infect Alicia Keys's MySpace Page - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com: There are currently no known remote exploits against Mac OS X in the wild, although there may be some known to Apple which are pending a fix, though with the release of OS X Leopard that seems highly unlikely. Apple finds and patches even remotely possible exploits as quickly as they can.

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Symbian OS in Open Source: Today's bot / malware writers are leveraging open source tools and development models to improve their bots according to McAfee. Unlike viruses of the past, bots tend to be written by a group of authors, who often collaborate by using the same tools and techniques as open source developers, said Dave Marcus, security research and communications manager with McAfee's Avert Labs.

[TechCrunch] Warning: Twitter Hit By StalkDaily Worm (Updated): Earlier today we were informed of a malicious site that was spreading links to StalkDaily.com on Twitter without user consent via a cross-site scripting vulnerability. We’ve taken steps to remove the offending updates, and to close the holes that allowed this “worm” to spread.

[Earring news, Earring new, Earring weblogs, Earring blog] Top 10 security nightmares of the decade: As e-mail spam filters improved to block bulk mailings, malicious coders looked elsewhere, turning to self-propagating worms like MSBlast, which exploited a flaw in Remote Procedure Call messages, and Sasser, which exploited a flaw in Internet Information Services (IIS). About this time, viruses and worms began using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to bypass e-mail filters so that the compromised machines could spew pharmaceutical spam to random addresses on the Net.

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