Monday, October 23, 2006

Don't think you're SAFE

Don't think you're SAFE just because you only surf to SAFE sites. Any Web site can be a potential risk, although it can be said that he risk increases when the site is owned by a small business or the site does not have quality IT support.

Today we hit a prime example. A legitimate business Web site had been hacked, and anybody visiting was being attacked via several Web browser exploits. Ironically, the site in question is the public face of a development firm specialising in the creation of components for Joomla! and Mambo. A week ago the site was ok - today it is not. A nice little javascript and two iframe exploits have been added, which tries to infect visitors to the site with some lovely malware. Scanners variously detected:

Read the article HERE.

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