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Hundreds of Thousands of Microsoft Web Servers Hacked (Brian Krebs/Security Fix)

Brian Krebs / Security Fix: Hundreds of Thousands of Microsoft Web Servers Hacked  —  Hundreds of thousands of Web sites - including several at the United Nations and in the U.K. government — have been hacked recently and seeded with... ...full story at techmeme

from techmeme on Sat, Apr 26 2008

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28 Jan 08 visit The Anatomy of Money-Mule Scams  »  slashdot Brian Krebs of the Washington Post's Security Fix blog has up an article on work-at-home money mule scams (backgrounder blog post here). These operations offer victims hundreds or thousands of dollars per week for moving money through their own accounts...
12 Jun 08 visit Malware Silently Alters Wireless Router Settings (Brian Krebs/Security Fix)  »  techmeme Brian Krebs / Security Fix: Malware Silently Alters Wireless Router Settings  —  A new Trojan horse masquerading as a video “codec” required to view content on certain Web sites tries to change key settings on the victim's...
20 Apr 08 visit When Monetizing ISP Traffic Goes Horribly Wrong (Brian Krebs/Security Fix)  »  techmeme Brian Krebs / Security Fix: When Monetizing ISP Traffic Goes Horribly Wrong  —  In seeking to further monetize Web site traffic on their networks, a number of major Internet service providers may be inadvertently exposing their customers...
26 Apr 08 visit Department of Homeland Security website hacked! (Dan Goodin/The Register)  »  techmeme Dan Goodin / The Register: Department of Homeland Security website hacked!  —  The sophisticated mass infection that's injecting attack code into hundreds of thousands of reputable web pages is growing and has even infiltrated the website...
30 Sep 08 visit Microsoft, Washington State Sue Scareware Purveyors (Brian Krebs/Washington Post)  »  techmeme Brian Krebs / Washington Post: Microsoft, Washington State Sue Scareware Purveyors  —  Microsoft Corp. and the state of Washington this week filed lawsuits against a slew of “scareware” purveyors, scam artists who use fake...

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