Major Web Sites Hit With Growing Web Attack
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143942-pg,1/article.html
Attackers booby-trap searches at top Web sites
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| Among some of the Web sites that have been attacked are USAToday.com,
| Target.com, ABCNews.com, Walmart.com, and several sites owned by CNET
| Networks, the publisher of News.com. A CNET employee confirmed that the
| attack had occurred but did not know to what extent it had affected site
| visitors.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9905951-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Yes, it's a mess and many sites are Windows based also, so troll can quit
taking this out of context. Lots of Web sites. Tens of thousands at the least
and yesterday it was the Windows-based UEFA.
Solution: don't use Windows desktops. The cause seems to be /software/ running
on the servers, not operating systems.
Recent:
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
Yesterday:
Euro 2008 ticket site hacked
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| But not all of Cluely's colleagues think that football fans are being
| victimised by the attackers. According to SophosLabs' Fraser Howard, "the
| Euro 2008 ticket site has most probably not been specifically targeted, but
| caught up in a larger, widespread attack."
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17363/1054/
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.uefa.com
Netblock Owner IP address OS Web Server Last changed
Verio ES madrid facility 81.19.110.11 NetApp NetCache
Microsoft-IIS/6.0
22-Feb-2008
VERIO DE frankfurt facility 213.198.96.11 unknown Microsoft-IIS/6.0
20-Feb-2008
Verio FR paris facility 81.93.176.11 unknown Microsoft-IIS/6.0
16-Feb-2008
Verio ES madrid facility 81.19.110.11 NetApp NetCache
Microsoft-IIS/6.0
15-Feb-2008
Verio UK london facility 83.231.156.11 NetApp NetCache
Microsoft-IIS/6.0
14-Feb-2008
Verio ES madrid facility 81.19.110.11 NetApp NetCache
Microsoft-IIS/6.0
20-Jan-2008
Verio FR paris facility 81.93.176.11 unknown Microsoft-IIS/6.0
27-Dec-2007
Verio ES madrid facility 81.19.110.11 NetApp NetCache
Microsoft-IIS/6.0
25-Dec-2007
Verio FR paris facility 81.93.176.11 unknown Microsoft-IIS/6.0
23-Dec-2007
Verio UK london facility 83.231.156.11 NetApp NetCache
Microsoft-IIS/6.0
21-Dec-2007
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