Archive for January 8th, 2008

Jan 08 2008

They were asking for it!

Posted by: melissa in Scams
Scams

Boy, ComputerWorld is really cranking out the hits today….

According to the report, a site claiming to be "Hack Safe" got hacked! Geeks.com had to tell its customers that their personal/financial info may have been exposed during a break in back in early December.

For shame, Geek.com! It is time for you to turn in your pocket protectors!

No true and proud Geek would ever claim to be above infiltration. As my husband always says, "The first rule of advertising is to LIE!" Geek.com called themselves "GEEKS" and claimed to be invincible. Two lies revealed in one quick line of code….

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Jan 08 2008

A picture’s worth a thousand lines of virus code….

Posted by: melissa in Scams
Scams

Did you get a digital photo frame for the holidays? What about a pair of MP3 sunglasses? Or, perhaps, a new GPS after yours got stolen? Yeah, I sure hope you didn’t plug that baby into your computer…..

SANS Internet Storm Center reports that many of these devices came packed with an extra bang for the buck; malware!

You may want to check the article out before trying to use the gizmo or you may want to notify anyone you gifted with an electronic gadget complete with internal memory to check the article before using it.

Happy Holidays!

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Jan 08 2008

You may want to check this before surfing…

Posted by: melissa in Scams
Scams

My friends at ComputerWorld say that over 70,000 web servers have been infected with a SQL Injection attack. What this means is that a site using a Windows SQL database may have been infected with an attack script that infects a visitor’s computer.

 This attack is not just on the archaic sites buried in the dust of the Internet. We are talking some pretty major sites. SANS Internet Storm Center reports that the viral script hosts can be searched for on Google.

One host is uc8010[dot]com. This Google search resulted in sites such as HGTV, netmagazines, virginia.gov, tnstate.edu, livingbeyondbreastcancer.org, cleveland.oh.us, ca.com and several thousand more even after 4 days.

 But, there’s more: ucmal[dot]com is another script host spewing this crap. This search resulted in over 90,000 hits, including myspace and many Chinese language sites.

So, my friends, you may want to make sure you are blocking JavaScript from running freely on your browsers or do a search on any site you want to visit before going. Luckily, Truffuls is not a Windows site and a search of "uc8010.com/0.js truffuls" and "ucmal.com/0.js truffuls" resulted in no matches!

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