The increasing number of website defacements by hackers in the Mediterranean region highlights persistent Web server security issues. A few weeks ago, Turkish hackers defaced several New Zealand websites, among them some high-profile and high-traffic sites, by modifying the pages to display messages like “Stop the war Israel (sic),” or a picture of Bill Gates…

Yes, we didn’t want to hear any more about this either, but this is actually interesting. In the process of investigating the WORM_DOWNAD.KK peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol communications, Trend Micro threat researchers have discovered – with the assistance of some external resources – some interesting code which indicates that the basic code functionality has been borrowed…