Massive iFrame Attack Hits More than 90,000 Pages
Researchers have discovered a massive iframe injection campaign that has infected more than 90,000 Web pages.
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
US CERT Director Resigns Without Warning
Randy Vickers, the director of the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US Cert) abruptly abandoned his post on Friday when he tendered his resignation immediately.The resignation came via an email penned by acting assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications, Bobbie Stempfley, and obtained by InformationWeek. The authenticity of that email has since been confirmed by a US CERT spokesperson, speaking on conditions of anonymity, according to Information Week.
Shocking Winehouse Death Videos Linked to Scams
Scammers wasted little time generating campaigns to exploit the untimely death of troubled pop-diva, Amy Winehouse.
Germany’s newly created National Cyber Defense Center was attacked by a group of hackers referring to themselves as the “n0n4m3 cr3w” (No Name Crew) in early July, according to a report from the IDG News Service.
The Internet hacker collective Anonymous claims to have breached the security of NATO’s computer network and made off with roughly a gigabyte of “restricted material,” according to a message posted from a Twitter account belonging to the group.
In a test designed to analyze various Web browsers’ abilities to protect European users against socially engineered malware attacks, researchers at NSS Labs determined that Internet Explorer 8 and 9 were significantly more effective at curbing malicious downloads than were the other major browsers.
Agents of the FBI raided three homes in New York on Tuesday and seized computers believed to be involved in recent attacks by the Anonymous hacking group.
A collective of hackers known as SwagSec claims to have broken into the UK website of Lady Gaga and made off with information on thousands of registered fans, according to a report from the UK’s Mirror.
Microsoft’s email service, Hotmail, is implementing tougher standards for user passwords to combat the increasing occurrence email account hijackings.
Allegations made on Wednesday by former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown that journalists working for Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid used malicious software to break into and gather information from computers belonging to the subjects of investigations was greeted with a strong denial by a spokewoman from News International.
