Posts Tagged ‘Security Threats’
by FireHost Evangelist on September 25th, 2009
The Curious George childrens’ television show, which is run by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), was propagating malware from at least Monday until Thursday last week.
Nidhi Shah, a research scientist at Purewire told SCMagazineUS.com, “It’s not clear how how hackers were able to break into the site, but it is possible that they obtained the credentials to an FTP account or exploited an SQL injection vulnerability.”
The exploit manifested as a pop up for visitors to authenticate their session with a username and password before viewing the site contents. When users canceled the message screen or entered the wrong credentials, an error page informed them that they had failed to login properly. That error page contained JavaScript code which loaded malware from an exploit site targeting a number of known software vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat Reader, AOL Radio AmpX and SuperBuddy and Apple QuickTime. Any user not patched against these bugs received the malware.
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Tags: ftp vulnerability, Secure Web Hosting, Security Threats, SQL Injections
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by FireHost Evangelist on July 17th, 2009
In an interview with SC Magazine, Symantec’s CEO and President Enrique Salem discussed the new security threats facing companies doing business on the internet. When asked about the top security threats, he responded with three.
“In 2009, we see three key trends that could impact IT security – a continued explosion of new malware variants, advanced web threats, and an uptick in threats related to social networking sites.” Mr. Salem reinforced that “cybercriminals are more sophisticated and driven than ever, and they operate in an increasingly profitable underground economy that makes it easy for them to not only buy and sell stolen information such as credit card data or even identities.”
Data from Symantec’s Global Intelligence Network indicates we have reached the point where there are more malicious programs created than legitimate programs every day, and that cyber attackers leverage vulnerabilities fueled by application code. Hackers compromise specific (often open source) websites, and then use them as a means for launching other attacks across the internet. (more…)
Tags: cybercrime, Hackers, protect open source applications, Secure Web Hosting, Security Threats, Website Vulnerabilities
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