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From Dorf: Happy 4th of JulyIndependence day has always been a big event for our neighbors south of the border. For the Dorf (Storm) authors, this is no exception. After staying dormant for a day, the Dorf botnet launched the latest... 3 July 2008 23:12 GMT
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Sony PlayStation - Revisited Yesterday’s blog on “Sony PlayStation succumbs to SQL attack” raised some questions.
Is the site still infected?
What is scale of this attack?
Who else has been hacked?
Why mention Sony... 3 July 2008 14:50 GMT
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Malicious Myspace Tom!Everyone who’s ever had a Myspace account knows Tom. Tom is everyone’s friend, like it or not. So getting an email telling you Tom has sent you a message is a perfectly plausible notification... 3 July 2008 14:36 GMT
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Avoiding SQL injection attacksOne of the reasons the web is so popular with attackers today is that innocent sites can be compromised and used to infect large numbers of victims. As I have commented previously [1], web sites/servers... 3 July 2008 10:40 GMT
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SophosLabs - the bloggers revealedSince we started the SophosLabs blog back in April 2007 we’ve been asked a few times to share a little information about the people who post up here.
The SophosLabs blog is updated around the clock,... 2 July 2008 17:04 GMT
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What happens when we find an infected website?Regular readers of the SophosLabs blog will be well aware of the recent large scale infection of web servers by SQL injection attacks. With the rise in compromised high-profile websites such as Sony... 2 July 2008 16:30 GMT
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Sony PlayStation site succumbs to SQL attackOver the last few months we have mentioned the current wave of SQL injection attacks plaguing the web (1, 2, 3 and 4). Yesterday, we spotted that Sony’s USA PlayStation website - a high profile... 2 July 2008 07:40 GMT
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Critical Microsoft update via Amazon EC2?This past weekend a fairly typical malware campaign started to arrive on our global network of spam traps, using the common technique of disguising itself as an “Important Windows Update”. Its... 1 July 2008 00:15 GMT
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