So apparently there was a XSS vulnerability patched yesterday in Ruby on Rails that affected Twitter and Basecamp. The spin that a lot of people are trying to put on this story is that IE8 was immune to the cross site scripting vulnerability but I think that the focus should be put on the fact […]
Turkish Hackers Break Into US Army Servers
My partners and I have been around the block w/ some Turkish hackers in the past and even involved the FBI once during a pretty persistent onslaught and I walked away from that experience pretty impressed with their hacking talents. Defacing websites and planting rootkits on commercial servers is one thing but hacking into anything […]
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 […]
PayPal XSS Vulnerability (EV SSL)
PayPal fell victim to a cross-site scripting vulnerability this past week. Basically it would allow hackers to carry out a few tasks such as stealing credentials from users as well as displaying their own content. PayPal, in my opinion, has always done a good job in terms of staying up on security risks over the […]