Sports fan sites being compromised by malicious authors is not unheard of. We’ve seen it happen to a Jets fan site in early January this year, and we’re seeing it again in another fan site–this time of Arsenal, a popular English soccer team. The compromised Web site in this case is Onlinegooner.com, which was reported…
Read MoreA site dubbing itself as the world’s largest podcast directory has been compromised! Even Google cautions about visiting the site, warning the user that it “may harm your computer.” The site, hxxp://www.pod-planet.com, seemingly contains a redirector string, such that a visit to the site’s main page (hxxp://www.pod-planet.com/index.asp) will automatically lead users to http://www.{BLOCKED}e8.com/app/helptop.do, which in…
Read MoreA stealthier version of Trojanized Microsoft Word documents is recently being sent as attachments to spammed email messages. Seen as another targeted attack, these malicious Word documents seem to be riding on the popularity of the upcoming Olympics in Beijing, China. The attachments have the file name Pasadena.doc. Trend Micro Research Project Manager Ivan Macalintal…
Read MoreWord has it that spammers have started circumventing the CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) system used by Google’s email service, Gmail. It can be recalled that a similar issue happened with the Windows Live mail service a few weeks back. The two attacks are pretty similar in terms…
Read MoreVMWare is one of the more popular virtualization software these days. Its home page describes virtualization as a technology bound to change the IT landscape, as it allows one to “transform hardware into software.” By “virtualizing” hardware resources including the CPU, RAM, etc., multiple virtual machines can share resources without interfering with one other. It…
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