The infamous bot network Asprox has been dormant for a couple for months now, but recently it started waking up again. The botnet is currently searching for vulnerable servers and websites to infect and the reason is to infect the visitors computers with harmful code. In May/June this botnet was able to infect more than [...] Continue Reading
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The latest version or WordPress is here so visit www.wordpress.org and upgrade today! One of the new things you will notice in version 2.7 is the new interface. They've listened to us users and made the new version much faster They've also added a few new features like drag and drop so you can put [...] Continue Reading
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Trend Micro has created the new word (or at least it's the first time I've seen it) YAMSIA in one of their latest blog posts. The reason for YAMSIA is Yet Another Massive SQL Injection Attack which is causing problems for certain .ASP pages. The botnet behind this attack is the Asprox botnet and it [...] Continue Reading
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The sites effected by the last SQL injection wave haven't recovered until it's time for the next attack of SQL injections Once again it looks like it's older version of phpbb that got injected by JS_SMALL.QT (discovered by Advanced Threats Research Program Manager Ivan Macalintal). Unfortunately if you're going to use phpBB you have to [...] Continue Reading
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Now all hosting companies offering IIS and SQL Server on Windows XP, 2003, Vista, and Server 2008 must watch out for a vulnerability allowing local users to raise his privilege level. Microsoft stated in their advisory: Hosting providers may be at increased risk from this elevation of privilege vulnerability. But no explanation was provided. Since [...] Continue Reading
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