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:Mass Host Hack Bigger than First Thought, Hits 10,000 Sites
Mass Host Hack Bigger than First Thought, Hits 10,000 Sites
Jan 22, 2008, 13 :45 UTC (7 Talkback[s]) (6736 reads)

(Other stories by Gregg Keizer)

"A large-scale hack of legitimate Web sites to infect visitors' PCs is much more massive than first thought, researchers said today. At least 10,000 sites have been compromised, and have hijacked unpatched systems that steered to their URLs.

"On Monday, Mary Landesman, a senior security researcher at ScanSafe Inc., said that she had uncovered hundreds of sites which had been hacked and were feeding exploits to visitors. Today, Don Jackson, a senior researcher with Atlanta-based SecureWorks Inc., said the number was considerably larger..."

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the fact is that the servers were not ha ...   miss leading title...   
Petem
Jan 22, 2008, 13:57:43
 
Not to mention that those admins apparen ...   re: miss leading title...   
Brandioch Conner
Jan 22, 2008, 20:22:14
 
> Not to mention that those admins appar ...   Re: re: miss leading title...   
Bob_Robertson
Jan 23, 2008, 01:33:55
 
Who said they were average Unix/Linux ad ...   Re: Re: re: miss leading title...   
Adam Cody
Jan 23, 2008, 07:18:39
 
It doesn't seem to have much to do w ...   Not Apache's/Linux's Fault   
Roy Schestowitz
Jan 23, 2008, 10:29:58
 
> > Not to mention that those admins app ...   Re: Re: re: miss leading title...   
Bozo
Jan 23, 2008, 10:56:06
 
I have been hit by this attack and I can ...   Re: miss leading title...   
francois
Jan 25, 2008, 13:40:32
 
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