MySpace.com Attacked by Worm : Profiles Shut Down
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MySpace, which we recently wrote about due to its partnership with Google, has shut down hundreds of user profiles as a precaution to a worm which is infecting user computers via MySpace &#038; Apple&#8217;s QuickTime media player. The worm seems to change user profiles and add malicious links and content when the video is played. Joris [...]
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Antivirus firm Symantec is facing a denial-of-service attack on its Web site from the latest version of the MyDoom worm. Authors of MyDoom.
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Last week a new worm started spreading on the Internet. It&#39;s named Santy, and it attempts to deface websites using specific versions of the popular phpBB bulletin board software.
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The WordPress.com blog-hosting service suffered a DoS (denial-of-service) attack that began Saturday and was still preventing users from logging in or posting to their blogs on Tuesday.Matt Mullenweg, spokesman for Automattic, confirmed that the service experienced a DoS attack with spikes of up to 6 gigabits of incoming traffic, which was making some blogs inaccessible for about five to 15 minutes on Tuesday. Though service had mostly been restored, Automattic, which maintains WordPress.com, was still working on returning service to normal levels on Tuesday afternoon, he said.&quot;Obviously that [is not good] and is pretty unusual for our service,&quot; he said. &quot;All our people who can are working on the issue.&quot;However, an employee at a New York-based company that has blogs hosted by WordPress.com suggested that some users were experiencing outages for longer than 15 minutes. The source, who asked not to be identified, said on Tuesday afternoon that users there were unable to log in to their blogs and post comments for &quot;most of the day.&quot; However, the blogs were still able to be viewed publicly.&quot;It&#39;s starting to come back to life now, slowly,&quot; said the source on Tuesday afternoon.WordPress.com users were notified via e-mail about the DoS attack. In the e-mail, the service provider said that the attack was affecting user log-in and causing some forums to be offline.Mullenweg said that the main Wordpress.com page was down longer than some blogs because &quot;we sacrificed it in order to keep blogs and our users up.&quot; However, the site&#39;s home page and Web site were up and running on Tuesday.He also provided a link to a graph that shows the traffic spikes to WordPress.com on the graph, where the service&#39;s traffic is displayed in a brown line.A DoS attack is an attempt to make a Web site or service unavailable to intended users by flooding the service or site with incoming data requests, such as e-mails. Motives for DoS attacks vary, but perpetrators mostly target companies with high-profile, highly trafficked Web sites.Joris Evers, a spokesman for security research and software company McAfee, said DoS attacks are still fairly common, although they have tapered off in recent years because technology has been developed that can head off such attacks before they affect service.Though he had not heard specifically of the WordPress attack, Evers said that it&#39;s possible the attack was mounted by someone &quot;who was upset about something that was written on a WordPress blog, and they decided to take action against that.&quot;
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Blog: Various people hiding behind pseudonyms are fueling news about a supposed worm for Mac OS X.
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The worm, dubbed Santy, exploits a vulnerability in third-party web servers that use phpBB bulletin board software, a popular package used to create web forums, and has been propagating at a rapid pace, infecting some 38,000 sites in a matter of hours.
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The Zafi.d worm seems to have done its worst, security experts say, but they urged users to remain on guard through the holidays for more seasonal shenanigans.
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A months-old backdoor in MySpace exposes photos in private profiles to lechers and snoops.  Ad-supported websites have risen to help people exploit the bug, and teenagers' private photos are being ogled on message boards.
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In an effort to curb use of the site by sex offenders, MySpace plans to introduce technology that would identify and block those attempting to use its social networking service.
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Hackers are using MySpace to download Trojan Horse software disguised as a Microsoft download.
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Latest worm poses a risk to many Web sites using the PHP scripting language.
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A new worm can spy on users by hijacking their Web cameras, a security firm warned Monday. The Rbot.gr worm -- the latest in a long line of similar worms; one security firm estimates that more than 4,000 variations
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Did you notice when Slashdot's  search was down for the past few days? (It's back up now.)  Turns out that in a stunning case of irony, it had been hammered into  submission by thousands of people attempting to use it.        However, unlike CmdrTaco's regimented DDoS attacks, this one is carried out  with malicious intent as opposed to mere sociopathic inconsiderateness.  It also highlights a potential threat from one of the biggest weblogging  services out there.
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THE PROBLEM with phpBB software, which we reported on this time yesterday is over. And it&#39;s thanks to Google, it appears. F-Secure said that the Santy worm, which defaced web sites and used a Google search
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Responding to calls from antivirus firms, Google has taken steps to stop the spread of an Internet worm called Santy worm. The santy worm was first spotted early Tuesday morning and was using Googleâs search
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Google&#39;s Orkut social networking site appeared to have been hit by a relatively harmless worm, but one that demonstrated the continuing vulnerability of Web applications.Some Orkut users received an e-mail telling them they had been sent a new scrapbook entry -- a type of Orkut message -- on their profile from another Orkut user.They only had to view their profile to become infected by the worm, which added them to an Orkut group, &quot;Infectados pelo V&#237;rus do Orkut,&quot; wrote the blogger Kee Hinckley on his site TechnoSocial.The name of the group, in Portuguese, roughly translates to &quot;infected by the Orkut virus.&quot;&#160;Orkut is popular in Brazil, as well as&#160;India, but has not caught on as well outside those countries compared to MySpace and Facebook.The description of the group reveals that the worm was designed to show Orkut could be dangerous to users even if they do not click on malicious links, Hinckley wrote. The worm apparently did not try to steal any personal data.The worm was also noted by Orkut Plus, a site that offers Orkut security tips, and discussed in Google&#39;s Orkut help group.At one time the infected group was adding new members at a rate of 100 per minute, and had reached a few hundred thousand members, according to various postings, but the problem appears now to be fixed, Hinckley wrote.Orkut&#39;s scrapbook feature allows people post messages that contain HTML code, but it may lack a filter to strip out malicious JavaScript, Hinckley wrote.&quot;It does not appear at first glance that the worm does anything more dangerous than pass itself on to one or more of your friends,&quot; he wrote. &quot;I think it unlikely that it would be able to steal your password, although it could potentially access other private information.&quot;&#160;
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A new variant of the Santy worm, which attacks Web pages usuing the PHP bulletin board software, appeared this week. Earlier variants used Google to find vulnerable Web pages; the new