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[News] Another Major Windows-based Site Cracked, Defaced

Canadian nuclear safety site defaced by hacker

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| The Citizen--which published a color photograph of one of the
| tampered pages--said the hacker had left a message saying "Please
| dont (sic) put me in jail...oops, I divided by zero."
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6157647.html

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca

No wonder Apache/Linux is rapidly gaining marketing share. Meanwhile,
Microsoft can only bribe Web hosts into moving parked (i.e. dead) domains to
some Windows PC (see links at bottom).


Recently compromised Windows-based Web sites:

Malicious Website: Super Bowl XLI / Dolphin Stadium

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| Websense Security Labs has discovered that the official website
| of Dolphin Stadium has been compromised with malicious code. The
| Dolphin Stadium is currently experiencing a large number of visitors,
| as it is the home of Sunday's Super Bowl XLI. The site is linked
| from numerous official Super Bowl websites and various Super
| Bowl-related search terms return links to the site.
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http://www.websense.com/securitylabs/alerts/alert.php?AlertID=733


MSN.co.uk money related websites hacked and defaced

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| Two websites belonging to MSN (Microsoft Network) in the United
| Kingdom, were defaced today by an attacker who goes by the nickname
| "DARK LORD".
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http://www.ddosed.com/2007/02/01/msn-uk-money-related-websites-hacked-and-defaced/


Nokia's Windows-based Site Gets Cracked

Screenshot:

http://monarkstudios.ca/hacked.JPG

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://nokia.ca


Hackers attack Gorbachev's [Windows-based] Web site

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| The perpetrators posted photographs of the suppressed rally on the
| Web site and published an open letter to the former leader, blaming
| him for the deaths of more 130 people -- a tragedy known in Azerbaijan
| as the Black January.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070120/ap_on_hi_te/russia_gorbachev

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.mikhailgorbachev.org
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.gorby.ru


Samsung site hijacked as malware host

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| The U.S. corporate website of Samsung Telecom has been hijacked and
| used to host and distribute malware, security vendor Websense has
| revealed.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=709669709&rid=-50

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=SamsungTelecom.com 




Related:

Why Windows is less secure than Linux

http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=311


Linux Security: A Big Edge Over Windows

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| Linux is better at locking down a computer than Windows. The Linux OS
| uses configuration settings and user permissions to a much more
| efficient degree than the Windows administrator account. To do
| this, non-enterprise users should seek help from third-party
| security suites that serve as configuration managers, James
| Bottomley, chief technology officer of SteelEye Technology said.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/54742.html


Security Report: Windows vs Linux

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| Finally, we also include a brief overview of relevant conceptual
| differences between Windows and Linux, to offer an insight into why
| Windows tends to be more vulnerable to attacks at both server and desktop,
| and why Linux is inherently more secure
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/


Microsoft Windows: Insecure by Design

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A34978-2003Aug23?language=printer


If Only We Knew Then What We Know Now About Windows XP

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| You can think of Windows XP as a house with a second floor built of
| spackle, wood filler and duct tape.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/23/AR2006092300510.html?nav=rss_technology


Why Windows is a security nightmare.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/21/1085120110704.html 




December 2006 Security Space Survey Results  

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| Security Space estimates that nearly 90 percent of all Web sites
| are "orphans" to which no other sites link. Its Web server survey
|     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| therefore counts only those servers referenced on other sites.
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http://www.serverwatch.com/stats/article.php/3652421


Open Source Fights Back

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| Question: The OpenSourceParking.com announcement cites a Netcraft
| report, which found that GoDaddy.com's migration from Linux to Windows
| caused Apache to lose server share. Was this event the sole impetus
| for OpenSourceParking.com?
|
| Perens: Not the first. It's part of a continuing behavior pattern by
| Microsoft that I think it's fair to call "dirty fighting." GoDaddy was
| using Apache (I assume on Linux) because it was a great technical
| solution. They didn't switch to IIS on Windows Server 2003 for any
| technical reason. The switch was accompanied by a press release by
| GoDaddy, containing Microsoft promotional language. Now, I've changed
| many servers from one thing to another, but I've never made a press
| release about it. GoDaddy wouldn't be doing that unless Microsoft had
| offered them something valuable in return. There has been talk in the
| domain business that Microsoft has been offering the large domain
| registries a wad of cash to switch their parked sites. There is no
| other reason to do this than to influence the Netcraft figures.
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                        http://www.itbusinessedge.com/item/?ci=15108

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