A disgruntled gamer has managed to hijack the domain, email and Xbox accounts of Stephen Toulouse, Microsoft's director of policy and enforcement for Xbox LIVE.It seems it all started with a social engineering attack against Network Solution, the registrar used by Toulouse for his stepto.com domain.The Xbox offi... |
4 April 2011
10:38 GMT |
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Thousands of websites hosted at Network Solutions have been compromised and had their index pages injected with a malicious IFrame. This appears to be a reiteration of an attack that took place over a week ago, but targeted only WordPress-powered blogs.The new mass injection attack has been reported by Sucuri Securit... |
21 April 2010
10:37 GMT |
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The reason for a recent mass compromise of WordPress blogs hosted at Network Solutions has been tracked down to a file permission issue. Experts suggest that WordPress' method of storing database login credentials is insecure for shared hosting setups.Late last week, a developer of Web-based integrity monitoring... |
12 April 2010
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Hundreds of WordPress-powered blog owners have recently found their websites inaccessible after a critical value has been altered in the database. The attack seems to affect even the latest version of the popular blog platform and, so far, the entry point has not been determined. Sucuri Security Labs, a provider of W... |
10 April 2010
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Unidentified hackers were able to hijack the domain name of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the largest IT and outsourcing provider in India. The DNS servers were apparently altered in order to redirect the domain to a different server. The attack happened last Sunday, when www.tcs.com displayed a message reading, ... |
9 February 2010
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Network Solutions announced that several hundred websites hosted on its infrastructure fell victim in a mass defacement attack during the past several days. Preliminary findings suggest that a remote file inclusion technique was used to compromise several of the company's Unix servers.Network Solutions is one of... |
20 January 2010
10:49 GMT |
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Network Solutions, one of the biggest domain registrars and web hosting companies in the world, announced a data breach incident yesterday after malicious code had been found on its e-commerce servers. According to the company, the malware might have intercepted transactions from 4,343 websites, compromising 573,928 ... |
25 July 2009
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Leading mobile phone maker Motorola, Inc. has recently announced that it has managed to ink a commercial W-CDMA contract with China United Network Communications Corporation Ltd. (China Unicom), the largest telecom operator in China. According to Motorola, the new deal marks a significant milestone for Motorola on Ch... |
25 April 2009
05:41 GMT |
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In a data breach notification sent to the Office of Privacy Protection in Wisconsin, as required by law, CheckFree estimates that as much as 160,000 customers might have been affected in early December, when their domain names were hijacked. We previously reported that at least two domain names belonging to the popul... |
17 December 2008
10:49 GMT |
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Two domain names belonging to the e-bill payment service CheckFree have been hijacked by an Estern European cybercriminal gang. The DNS records for the domains have been altered to point to a malware distribution server. CheckFree is one of the largest services that provide individuals with the ability to pay utility... |
4 December 2008
05:09 GMT |
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Analysts from security vendor Sophos warn of two new online scams that are targeting domain owners. The campaigns are focusing on phishing login information for eNom and Network Solutions accounts and they might be the result of ICANN starting the de-accreditation procedure for EstDomains, a registrar commonly used b... |
31 October 2008
10:45 GMT |
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The domain names industry, if I may call it that, has been revolutionized a couple of years ago when real competition was allowed and besides Network Solutions, the monopolistic figure at that time, many other lower-priced competitors entered the market. Today, the once proud and all too costly Network Solutions is a... |
11 January 2008
04:10 GMT |
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