Latest Internet security news
- July 17, 2008 A fake anti-virus scan website is found at antivirxp08.com
- July 15, 2008 The website of an European organization is hacked to redirect Internet users to fake scan websites including win-x-defender.com.
- July 12, 2008 If one accesses http://paypal2424.freehostia.com, he or she will be redirected to an active phishing website hosted at wistee.fr.
- July 10, 2008 Forums run by Virginia Commonwealth University’s Partnership for People with Disabilities flooded with tens of thousands of spam comments, redirecting Internet users to a fake malware scan website
- July 9, 2008 A new Bank of America phishing website is currently active through the domain of lang85.tk.
- July 8, 2008 Beware of id53.cc: Bank of America phishing website active at id53.cc
- July 7, 2008 Multiple websites hacked and installed with r.html to host fake PornTube content
- July 2, 2008 Yale University's YaleGlobal exploited possibly with iframe insertion
- July 2, 2008 Google-Owned Blogspot used to redirect Internet users to a new fake anti-virus scan website at spywareonlinescanner.com
- June 27, 2008 5 more official websites of musicians (Blake Lewis, Bow Wow & Omarion, Lyfe Jennings, Raheem DeVaughn and The Official Star Wars Music Site) related to Sony BMG’s Myplay are hacked.
- June 24, 2008 Active scam website hosted at the domain of id746.com targeting Colonial Bank customers with Backdoor.Trojan
- June 24, 2008 A phishing website targeting JP Morgan Chase Manhattan Bank customers currently active at the domain of update34.com
- June 20, 2008 Avoid accessing the redirection website hosted at the domain of google-us.info. Accessing this website will redirect one to a brand-new fake anti-virus scan website at virus-securityscanner.com.
- June 20, 2008 San Diego State University's ROHAN Academic Computing WWW Server hacked and exploited
- June 20, 2008 Our investigation reveals that 8 websites of popular musicians are all hosted by San Antonio-based web hosting company rackspace Hosting.
- June 19, 2008 Official music websites for Jennifer Lopez, Alicia Keys, Backstreet Boys, Ricky Martin and more hacked and exploited
- June 17, 2008 University of Tennessee's Undergraudate Philosophy Club forums exploited for pharmacy and porn spam
- June 17, 2008 Clicksor's pop-up ad used to redirect Internet users to a drive optimization malware scam website
- June 15, 2008 Because of security risks, you are strongly advised to avoid accessing the following domains: antivirus-scanonline, tembi.cn, takari.cn, freeworldaccess.info, xxxhotvidsonline.com
- June 13, 2008 German web hosting company Hetzner Online now hosts the fake anti-virus scan website at antivirus-scanonline.com.
- June 13, 2008 The fake anti-virus scan website at antivirus-scanonline.com falling back to EuroAcess after shut down by LeaseWeb
- June 12, 2008 Dutch web hosting company LeaseWeb pulles the plug off the fake anti-virus scan website at antivirus-scanonline.com.
- June 12, 2008 Cyber criminal organization sending out eBay phishing e-mail message
- June 8, 2008 Popular social networking website Bebo.com hacked, redirecting Internet users to a porn website
- June 7, 2008 A new redirection scam website found at yahoo-us.info
- June 7, 2008 Fake websites pretending to sell watches and accessories are hosted at the domains of qautey.com, riapuel.com and kibeamm.com
- June 5, 2008 A Chinese cyber crime organization is suspected of installing 4 fake male organ enhancement websites through the domains of pliayen.com, hanevel.com, pnealte.com and dimanez.com
- June 3, 2008 10 Chinese domains found, leading Internet users to fake PornTube websites hosted through the domain of tubecollection.com
- June 3, 2008 Fake PornTube website hosted with the domain of anykindvids.com distributing a Mac-targeting computer virus
- June 2, 2008 The website of Saudi Arabia's governmental investment organization SAGIA used as a redirection point for the fake anti-virus scan website at antivirus-scanonline.com
- June 2, 2008 The fake anti-virus scan website with the domain of antivirus-scanonline.com is now possibly hosted by a web hosting company called LEASEWEB in the Netherlands.
- May 29, 2008 A cyber criminal group circulates a phishing e-mail message targeting French PayPal users.
- May 28, 2008 Fake anti-virus scan websites of antivirus-scanner.com and antivirus-scanonline.com possibly hoste by New York-based web hosting company Ezzi.net
- May 26, 2008 An unknown problem causes several web servers at Lunarpages to become inaccessible for about half an hour around midnight between May 25th and 26th (US PDT). The affected servers are Meissa, Sol, Talitha, Wend, Zelus and possibly more.
- May 25, 2008 The file from antivirus-scanonline.com determined to contain Troj/FakeVir-BF
- May 24, 2008 Lehigh University's multiple department websites among the victims of the latest '?prj' exploitation scheme
- May 23, 2008 A new exploitation scheme involving a fake scan website at antivirus-scanonline.com Found
- May 20, 2008 Illegitimate use of certification label at Viagra USA Online's checkout form confirmed
- May 19, 2008 New Internet security video "Viagra USA Online at WWW.VIAGRAUSAONLINE.COM: Would You Trust This Online Vendor?" is released.
- May 19, 2008 StartLogic offers unlimited disk space and unlimited monthly bandwidth with ProLogic.
- May 18, 2008 A power failure at Las Vegas data center shuts down tens of thousands of Lunarpages-hosted webpages for hours.
- May 18, 2008 A new Internet security documentation video now available at Affiliate Spam / Internet Security Videos
- May 17, 2008 A phishing website (Canadian Health Care pharmacy store) with a Chinese domain (www.pkjhyfl.cn) appearing to steal credit card information
- May 16, 2008 Exploitation list of 130+ websites hosted at U.K. web hosting company 34SP.com released
- May 16, 2008 Exploitation list of 110+ websites hosted at U.S. web hosting company PowWeb released
- May 14, 2008 The official website of British music band Camera Obscura exploited for fake anti-virus scan redirection
- May 14, 2008 MacHouse traces a common characteristic of 4 of the victimized websites in the ‘?sitemap’ hack exploitation to rackspace HOSTING.
- May 12, 2008 A new hack scheme has been discovered involving a fake anti-virus scan website.
- May 7, 2008 PowWeb slashes its one-year hosting plan price to $46.56 ($3.88 per month)... Click here more information.
- May 7, 2008 PHP software review for websitelogin released
- May 6, 2008 PHP software review for Bandwith Manager released
- May 6, 2008 PHP software review for DL PayCart released
- May 5, 2008 Advertising network review for Gunggo released
- April 26, 2008 Javascript-based WYSIWYG editor called TinyMCE is determined to be the source of vulnerability causing the in-hack exploitation.
- April 18, 2008 University of Oxford College of Education's website under a different domain exploited for child porn
- April 16, 2008 University of Arizona, College of Education among 48 victims in the 'in' hack exploitation
- April 14, 2008 The number of victimized websites in the 'in' hack exploitation amounts to 22.
- April 8, 2008 An affiliate spam terrorist group exploits Mozilla Labs' forums to send Internet users to an online pharmacy store. Watch a documentation video at our Affiliate Spam Videos.
- March 26, 2008 NBC's social networking service myNBC exploited for affiliate spam
- March 21, 2008 Discovery Channel website (dsc.discovery.com) exploited with iframe injection
- March 21, 2008 India's 6th largest website exploited with iframe injection
- March 20, 2008 The WordPress wp-content hack list grows and covers 102 websites
- March 20, 2008 A documentation video released for blog article "YouTube Hit by Online Pharmacy Spam"
- March 20, 2008 HBO forums exploited for affiliate spam
- March 18, 2008 Official Packard Bell website exploited with iFrame injection
- March 16, 2008 Princeton University's "Point" is exploited to host online game web content
- March 11, 2008 MacHouse releases a new affilate spam documentation video. The victimized website is that of United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
- March 11, 2008 "WordPress Upload Module Trouble, CHMOD of 600 and Solution"
- February 14, 2008 Spam domain greatlistquotes.com is closed.
- February 4, 2008 A cyberterrorist sends out a phishing e-mail message involving PayPal.
- January 31, 2008 "Video Tutorial: Finding the Web Host" is available to members.
- January 28, 2008 MacHouse discovers that IBM's website has been hacked and exploited to host redirection to a pharmacy spam website.
- January 25, 2008 Security Tips for Webmasters is now available under Security Bulletins for members.
- January 24, 2008 MacHouse releases a new video tutorial titled "Introduction to VisualWare’s VisualRoute (MAC): Finding the Hosts of FOOTBALLYEARS.NET And HEIGHTGROWTHSHOES.COM."
- January 24, 2008 An online criminal group is distributing a malacious file titled hqcodecvip1355.dmg. This file is distributed at hqcodecvip.com/download/. The file contains a Trojan derivative called OSX/RSPlug-Gen. It's also known as DNS Changer Trojan and obviously targets Mac users.
- January 22, 2008 A spam terrorist who often uses the IP address of 195.225.178.28 is on a fast-paced spam splee to send Internet users to the subdomain websites of interia.pl. One of the final destinations is autopressweb.com, which has ties with malware-scan.com (MalwareAlarms).
- January 20, 2008 Users of Moodle (open-source course management system software) are believed to be at large spam risks. Read this blog article for more details.
- January 19, 2008 MacHouse no longer supports IX Web Hosting because the hosting company condones spam vandalism involving their clients. Read this blog article for more details.
- January 17, 2008 We have come to believe that the piece of application one is forced to download against their will contains malware installation. People are mislead to believe that special software is required to watch movies. As Blogspot has not taken decisive measures against these porn websites, we strongly advise Internet users to avoid going to Blogspot. Read this blog article for more information.
- January 16, 2008 Internet users are advised to avoid going to Google Groups pages whose URLs include "groups.google." Read this blog article for more information.
- January 15, 2008 Google Groups abuse expands to 10 other countries. Read this blog article for more information.
- January 15, 2008 Spam terrorist exploits News.com
- January 15, 2008 Affiliate terroist exploits Google Groups, Technorati, Blogspot, MSN Groups and more
- January 14, 2008 WordPress Simple Editing Techniques: Break, Alignment and Tables
- January 14, 2008 Affiliate of International Human Rights Association (IHRA) spam-exploits WordPress Support. Read this blog article for more information.
- January 12, 2008 New York City doctor's website is closed after spammer advertises it at WordPress Support. Read this blog article for more information.
- January 11, 2008 The websites of canadians-medication.com and mens-medication.com are fake and run by the same criminal group. Internet users are advised to avoid these fake online pharmacy stores.
- January 11, 2008 Spoono Host's client websites exploited for phishing 3 days in a row, 4 times in 6 days
- January 10, 2008 A cyber criminal group sends out a phishing message involving Skype and 2 domains.
- January 10, 2008 Malware scan risk warning issued for 123greetings.com, which has failed to stop their visitors from getting involuntarily redirected Malware Alarm's scam website
- January 6, 2008 Malware scan risk warning issued for any website displaying Dot.Tune's orange Flash ad
- January 5, 2008 A new phishing message involving Bank of America sent possibly by the same criminal organization responsible for the phishing message sent 2 days ago. Read this blog article for more information.
- January 3, 2008 A criminal group sends multiple copies of a phishing message involving Bank of America. Read this blog article for more information.
- January 1, 2008 A manipulated orange Flash ad redirects Internet users to the deceptive website of malware-scan.com, which is run by a criminal organization. Read this blog article for more information.
- December 29, 2007 "WordPress Simple Tutorial: Placing Ad Between Header and Content" illustrates a simple way of embed ads in WordPress. Read this blog article for more information.
- December 23, 2007 Warning: We have acquired a new e-mail message that is intended to exploit PayPal users Read this blog article for more information.
- December 21, 2007 Warning: We have acquired a new e-mail message that is intended to exploit Amazon customers. Read this blog article for more information.
- October 31, 2007 Warning: A phishing message involving U.S. Internal Revenue Service is going around. Read this blog article for more information.
- October 23, 2007 PayPal phishing warning has been issued. Read this blog article for more information.
- September 14, 2007 Released is a new documentation video showing how Blue Advertise cheat on pulishers.
- September 11, 2007 New affiliate spam video involving Copper Mountain College and affiliate porn is released.
- September 11, 2007 New affiliate spam video involving Massachusetts Institute of Technology Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is released.
- September 11, 2007 New affiliate spam video involving Unlocked iPhone and Manicure4u Beauty Shop is released.
- September 10, 2007 New affiliate spam video involving CampusCGI Facility at Princeton University is released.
- September 7, 2007 "How to Embed ESPN Video in WordPress Article" is shown at SEO blog.
- September 5, 2007 Are you new to online advertising and have questions for publisher programs? So we have posted a new page titled "Publisher's Guide."
- September 4, 2007 New advertising network "Blue Advertise" is reviewed.
- September 4, 2007 New advertising network "AdToll" is reviewed.
- September 3, 2007 New advertising network "CPX Interactive" is reviewed.
- August 28, 2007 MacHouse releases a documentation video showing the website of popular blog software WordPress has been exploited. Go to SEO blog for more information.
- August 27, 2007 A documentation video showing Clicksor's Pop-under ad is released.
- August 23, 2007 New advertising network "Clicksor" is reviewed.
- August 21, 2007 MacHouse releases a new video tutorial titled "Advertising Network Video Tutorial for Publishers: Canep Media." Go to SEO blog for more information.
- August 21, 2007 MacHouse releases a new video tutorial titled "Advertising Network Video Tutorial for Publishers: AdBrite." Go to SEO blog for more information.
- August 20, 2007 New category "Advertising Network" is up and running.
- August 18, 2007 A new spam video involving AdBrite and DriveCleaner has been released.
- August 11, 2007 The following article shows how to add Google's AdSense and other commercial ads at WordPress blog.
- August 11, 2007 Documentation video showing Bank of America Phishing
- August 10, 2007 "Embedding SWF Video Files in Blog/Webpage" shows how to embed a self-contained SWF-based video in weblog and HTML webpages.
- August 10, 2007 "A Tip on E-mail Filter: Destination"
- August 3, 2007 "WordPress Spy Comment" shows that affiliate spammers post very simple messages to penetrate a WordPress blog system.
- July 31, 2007 If you have a daily number of unique visitors close to 1,000, maybe, it's time to think about placing commercial ads more effectively. "Publisher’s Guide for Placing Ads" shows different online ad measures and analyzes their merits and demerits.
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