I was just reading on WHIR this morning about GoDaddy’s most recent denial of service that brought down several thousand of their clients websites yesterday. In their response they noted that even though it was several thousands of websites, it only represents a small percentage of their clients. This is one of the downsides to […]
#phishingalert Attack Underway!
Over the past 20 or 30 minutes this evening I have seen a lot of tweets reporting a phishing attack that is apparently running rampant on Twitter’s social networking. If you get a Twitter direct message today reading: “check out this funny blog about you”, don’t do it. The link leads to a fake Twitter […]
CBS Website Hacked
That’s right, the television network CBS had their website hacked using the popular iframe method and was actually used for a period of time to distribute malware to it’s visitors. I am not for sure how many visitors CBS has on a daily basis but I am pretty sure it’s probably high volume. One of […]
Ayatollah’s Website Hacked
It looks like international website defacing is on the rise, I have heard several reports over the past few days of international websites being defaced, most of these were religiously oriented sites. On CNN tonight I found out that the Web site of Iraq’s most influential Shiite cleric was hacked Friday, with the attackers’ messages […]
U.S. Cyberattacks?
Just reading CNN.com this morning (my morning ritual) and ran across this news report that was apparently filed earlier this morning and I thought it was pretty interesting. This isn’t anything that those of us in the hosting industry haven’t been hearing off and on since 9/11 but given what happened to Georgia just prior […]
CNN Site Still Unstable
This kind of confirms some of what myself and my partner Greg were noticing last night. A lot of websites CNN included were acting very erradically, for instance, the site would load but there would be no stylesheet attached to it. Greg noticed that he couldn’t get into MSN either. While on the phone with […]