Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have intercepted a drive-by download attack on imageshack.us that was launched through a malicious advertisement.The malvertizement was loaded from a [censored]mediagroup.com domain and served an exploit for an older vulnerability in Java that was patched in 2010 (CVE-2010-4452... |
4 May 2011
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Popular image hosting service ImageShack has decided to fight spam by replacing abusive images detected on its servers with ones that alert users about scams.ImageShack is one of the largest free media hosting providers and is used by hundreds of thousands of websites. The service runs on some 450 Linux servers, orga... |
14 February 2011
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Last week, developer Derek Kepner admitted that he was likely “on dangerous ground” having a BitTorrent-based application in the iTunes App Store. Today, he can confirm it, as Apple recently called the developer to inform him that his IS Drive application was getting yanked.“Just got a call from App... |
6 October 2010
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A BitTorrent-based application called “IS Drive” was approved by Apple this week. Available for $4.99, the app allows you to check and manage the downloads in your ImageShack Drive account. For downloaded videos, users can even view thumbnails (if ImageShack is able to provide them).Basically, IS Drive al... |
3 October 2010
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A group of cyber hacktivists, whose declared goal is to put an end to vulnerability full disclosure practices, hacked into servers belonging to the popular free image hosting service ImageShack. The perpetrators modified the settings in order to display their manifesto instead of the hosted images. ImageShack is one... |
13 July 2009
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Christopher Boyd, Director of Malware Research for FaceTime Security Labs and Microsoft Security MVP, has come across a security flaw on the popular free image hosting service ImageShack through which anyone could have downloaded the log file associated with any image. Such a log file contains the IP address which wa... |
29 September 2008
10:16 GMT |
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