Facebook, Amazon and Malware
Posted by Jason Remillard on Wed, Jan 20, 2010 @ 08:24 AM
SiteSecurityMonitor.Com Now Scans for Malware
Launched quietly last week, we are now scanning all websites for malware. What does this mean to you? Well, we now test each and every URL on your site for malware. How? Well, we use over 98,950 (count at this point!) malware patterns for our testing. We can test your code, your servers and even more importantly, your ad networks. As you know, the attack patterns are changing, and now the ‘bad guys’ are injecting malware on adnetworks. Google and others have been hit with this in recent weeks. We hope you enjoy the new service (reporting available in your online reports at: SiteSecurityMonitor.com Online Reporting).
Facebook users – Update your Security Settings ASAP!
Funny, but serious… ASAP – Review your Facebook Security Settings: Zuckerberg pictures exposed by Facebook privacy roll-back
- CEO shown ‘plastered’, possibly while devising new policy
- Illuminating pictures of Facebook chief exec Mark Zuckerberg have been exposed by Facebook’s privacy roll back
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True Story on Fixing a Customer's Infection – and What It Means to Web Developers and Hosters
Cross posted to thewhir.com – Hey all…I figured I would re/cross post a recent article I did on managing a customer's problems with respect to a recent malware infection. In this case, the add-on to the story that was not published was that the webhost he was on, didn’t help much. One of those ‘you’re on your own buddy’ kind of things.
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Amazon EC2 Used as a Safe Habor for Hackers
Security researchers have intercepted a new variant of the Zeus crimeware, which is using Amazon’s EC2 services for command and control purposes of the botnet. The cybercriminals appear to be using Amazon’s RDS managed database hosting service as a backend alternative in case they lose access to the original domain, which would result in the complete loss of access to the compromised financial data obtained from the infected hosts.