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Bangladeshi Hacker TiGER-M@TE Targets InMotion Hosting

September 26, 2011 — Web hosting provider InMotion was hacked on Sunday morning, according to several reports on Monday. In an email to customers, InMotion said the homepage defacement attack was launched by Bangledeshi hacker TiGER-M@TE at around 4 am EST and replaced index files in all public html directories with the attacker’s own branded index.php, according to a report by Blast Magazine.

Hundreds of WordPress Blogs and Sites Recover From Networkads.net Attack

April 12, 2010 — As users prepare for version three of the popular open-source blogging platform WordPress, many of those using WordPress had their site or blog hacked, redirecting visitors to a page that attempts to install malicious software.

Hacker Finds SQL Injection Vulnerability in Army Website

January 11, 2010 — A Romanian hacker has disclosed an SQL injection vulnerability on a US Army website that could lead to a full database compromise.

Twitter Employee Email Hack Causes Company Data Breach

July 16, 2009 — A hacker has used a Twitter administrative employee’s personal email account to gain access to company notes, spreadsheets, ideas, financial details and more.

Phishing Combines Wildcard DNS and XSS

February 18, 2009 — Using a crafty combo of wildcard DNS records and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, a new wave of phishing attacks on eBay is using others’ websites to help steal credentials from victims using a fake login, according to UK research and security firm Netcraft.

Checkfree Warns 5M Customers of Hack

January 7, 2009 — Following a hacker hijacking in December that redirected users to a site that tried to install malicious applications, online bill payment site CheckFree.com has notified more than five million customers – not only direct CheckFree.com users, but also bank customers who use CheckFree’s bill payment service to process payments.

Panda Software Joins APWG

January 14, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Antivirus solution provider Panda Software (pandasoftware.com) announced Thursday that it has become a corporate sponsor of the Anti-Phishing Working Group, an association made up of IT security representatives aiming to combat phishing scams.

Study Questions Disaster Readyness

October 7, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A national survey released on Tuesday revealed a considerable discrepancy between perception and reality concerning the disaster preparation of Fortune 1000 companies, according to C-suite executives. The study, commissioned by SunGard Availability Services (availability.sungard.com) and conducted by Harris Interactive (harrisinteractive.com), discovered potential deficiencies in companies’ ability to access critical information when faced with power outages, natural disasters, hackers and computer viruses.

Microsoft JPEG Flaw Exploited

September 20, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to a report published Friday by Internet research firm Netcraft (netcraft.com), code has been published on the Internet that claims to partially exploit a weakness in the way Microsoft’s software handles image files.

NISCC Identifies Email Security Flaws

September 15, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (niscc.gov.uk), the body responsible for protecting the UK’s critical national infrastructure against electronic attack, issued an urgent warning to users about eight serious new security flaws affecting hundreds of email gateway products.