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Thousands of Web sites stung by mass hacking attack

Up to 40,000 web sites have been hacked and are redirecting victims to another site for purposes of infecting their PC.

The affected sites have been hacked to host JavaScript. The code directs people to a fake Google Analytics web site before redirecting them to another bad site at which point the PC is scanned for vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer or Firefox browsers. If vulnerabilities are found malware is delivered to the PC. If vulnerabilities are not found a fake warning comes across the user’s screen telling them their system is infected and tries to get the user to willingly download a Trojan downloader disguised as security software.

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Twitter hit with rogue anti-virus scam

Seeking to capitalize on the “click-first-ask-questions-later” culture of Twitter, users of the popular microblogging site, hackers sought to infect users with malware through the use of rogue anti-virus software last weekend. This is believed to have been one of the first times Twitter users were hit with a for-profit attack.

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China blocks Twitter ahead of Tiananmen anniversary

With the upcoming 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square struggle China cut access to Flickr, Hotmail, MSN Spaces, Twitter and Microsoft’s new search engine called Bing. The five services join YouTube as being blocked by the government from being accessed from within China.

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India’s Mobile Market Is Growing Despite Economic Slowdown

11.9 million new mobile subscribers were added to India’s growing mobile community last April. While lower than the 15.64 million additions the month before the reduction is due to seasonal factors primarily associated with India’s end of fiscal year. This brings India’s mobile community up to 404 million subscribers.

Comment: What is interesting about this is while it is not fully clear as to how “data-ready” the phones are across the subscriber base, it makes for a large market as hackers are starting to dabble in the mobile phone market with malware and phishing schemes.

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ISPs frosty to Jacqui’s comms surveillance plan

ISPs are struggling with how they will implement the UK government’s wishes that ISPs record and store all data that traverses the Internet through the UK for up to 10 years. This data includes e-mails, browsing history and Internet-based voice data.

The root of the issue is the UK government decided not to collect this information in a central government database for reasons of ensuring the privacy of individual citizens. However, ISPs, 40% of which currently do not have the capacity to store such volumes of data, question whether the UK government fully understands the cost in providing the capacity to handle such an initiative. In other words, the 2 billion pounds the government is setting aside for the initiative may not be enough. ISPs also have concerns over the systems capability to adequately protect the information collected from their users.

The data is to be accessed by law enforcement only to look for information due to a person suspected of a crime.

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