Everything was fine, but they must have read Microsoft's 'quick facts' and
changed (at the expense of the customers).
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.bankofindia.com
67.15.253.6 Windows Server 2003 Microsoft-IIS/6.0 21-May-2007
64.39.18.73 Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 22-Jan-2005
204.176.140.102 Linux Apache/1.3.27 Unix Red-Hat/Linux PHP/4.1.2 mod_perl/1.24
14-Jan-2003
204.176.140.102 Linux Apache/1.3.22 Unix Red-Hat/Linux PHP/4.0.6 mod_perl/1.24
12-Sep-2002
204.176.140.102 Linux Apache/1.3.22 Unix Red-Hat/Linux PHP/4.0.1pl2
mod_perl/1.24 27-Jun-2002
204.176.140.102 Linux Apache/1.3.12 Unix Red Hat/Linux mod_ssl/2.6.6
OpenSSL/0.9.5a PHP/4.0.1pl2 mod_perl/1.24 28-Jun-2001
204.176.140.102 unknown Apache/1.3.12 Unix Red Hat/Linux mod_ssl/2.6.6
OpenSSL/0.9.5a PHP/4.0.1pl2 mod_perl/1.24 27-Jun-2001
204.176.140.102 Linux Apache/1.3.12 Unix Red Hat/Linux mod_ssl/2.6.6
OpenSSL/0.9.5a PHP/4.0.1pl2 mod_perl/1.24 22-Jan-2001
204.176.140.102 Linux Apache/1.3.6 Unix PHP/3.0.7 17-Nov-2000
Here is what happened days ago:
Breaking: Bank of India seriously compromised
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/breaking-bank-of-india-seriously.html
How the Online Trust Model is Broken - The Bank of India.com attack
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| Manually entering the addresses into a browser will load some of them,
| suggesting that those upstream malware sources are active (others have
| already been shut down).
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http://www.beskerming.com/commentary/2007/08/31/265/How_the_Online_Trust_Model_is_Broken_-_The_Bank_of_India.com_attack
That's the Wow! My bank uses Windows as well. This is not just a waste of
customers' money, but when damage strikes, that can become a financial
disaster to the bank (never mind privacy and the customers whose PC has just
been hijacked).
Computer virus turns 25
,----[ Quote ]
| More recently, viruses have been created to steal personal data such as
| passwords or to create relay stations for making junk e-mail more difficult
| to trace.
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http://www.mcall.com/technology/all-virus.6023142sep01,0,113775.story
Yes, that would be zombie PCs. But the Germany government wants back doors and
Microsoft happily gives them.
Related:
German constitutional protection authorities foresee "secret service
procurement offensive"
,----[ Quote ]
| ...if Chinese attackers really had penetrated government computers, this
| would pose a risk even if no confidential data was involved. "It is possible
| to find out many things in this way - appointments, responsibilities, who is
| working on what - this is the first step in carrying out classical
| espionage," said Möller.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/95236/from/rss09
Politicians want to be informed on Chinese Trojan attacks
,----[ Quote ]
| Ruprecht Polenz (CDU), chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
| said: "If there is clear evidence that the Chinese state is responsible for
| these attacks, we cannot let the matter rest." According to a Spiegel report,
| the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution assumes that
| experts of the Chinese army have conducted the online espionage attacks
| against the Federal Chancellery, the ministry of economics, the ministry of
| research and also the ministry of foreign affairs.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/94983/from/rss09
China Crafts Cyberweapons
,----[ Quote ]
| The Defense Department reports China is building cyberwarfare
| units and developing viruses.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132284-pg,1/article.html(News)
German spyware plans trigger row
,----[ Quote ]
| The e-mails would contain Trojans - software that secretly installs itself on
| suspects' computers, allowing agents to search the hard drives.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6973018.stm
EU should class cyber attacks as terrorism: Estonia
,----[ Quote ]
| Estonia will propose at a meeting of European Union justice
| ministers next week that the bloc consider cyber attacks as
| "acts of terror", Estonian Justice Minister Rein Lang said Thursday.
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http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/administration/afp-news.html?id=070607160418.pfpmeqvt&cat=science
Tiscali e-mail 'hit' by spammers
,----[ Quote ]
| Spammers have knocked out the e-mail service for many of the customers
| of internet service provider (ISP) Tiscali, the firm has said.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6704003.stm
Telegraph floored by DDoS attack
,----[ Quote ]
| Cyber-attacks have been much in the news of late. Last week,
| Russian and European leaders held a summit in the aftermath of a
| three-week cycle of denial of service attacks targeting the
| Baltic countries' internet infrastructure.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/22/telegraph_ddos/
Estonia suspects Kremlin in Web attacks
,----[ Quote ]
| He said more than 1 million computers worldwide have been used in
| recent weeks to attack Estonian government and business Web sites
| since a dispute arose with Moscow over Estonia's moving of a
| Soviet-era war memorial from downtown Tallinn.
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/05/17/estonia.cyber.attacks.ap/index.html?eref=rss_tech
State Department got mail and hackers
,----[ Quote ]
| A break-in targeting State Department computers worldwide last
| summer occurred after a department employee in Asia opened a
| mysterious e-mail that quietly allowed hackers inside the U.S.
| government's network.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070419/ap_on_hi_te/hackers_state_department
The feds weigh in on Windows security
,----[ Quote ]
| "The benefits of this move are enormous: Common, secure configurations
| can help slow botnet spreading, can radically reduce delays in patching,
| can stop many attacks directly, and organizations that have made the
| move report that it actually saves money rather than costs money,"
| Paller wrote.
`----
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6172158.html
Zombie botnets attack global DNS servers
,----[ Quote ]
| Hackers launched a sustained attack last night against key root servers
| which form the backbone of the internet.
|
| Security firm Sophos said that botnets of zombie PCs bombarded the
| internet's domain name system (DNS) servers with traffic.
|
| "These zombie computers could have brought the web to its knees,"
| said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2174383/zombie-botnets-attack-global
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
,----[ Quote ]
| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
EveryDNS, OpenDNS Under Botnet DDoS Attack
,----[ Quote ]
| The last time the Web mob (spammers and phishers using botnets)
| decided to go after a security service, Blue Security was forced
| to fold and collateral damage extended to several businesses,
| including Six Apart.
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http://securitywatch.eweek.com/exploits_and_attacks/everydns_opendns_under_botnet_ddos_attack.html
U.S. cyber counterattack: Bomb 'em one way or the other
,----[ Quote ]
| If the United States found itself under a major cyberattack aimed
| at undermining the natio's critical information infrastructure,
| the Department of Defense is prepared, based on the authority of
| the president, to launch a cyber counterattack or an actual
| bombing of an attack source.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/020807-rsa-cyber-attacks.html
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