In the news, I just read this. Paris Hilton’s website is being used in a web attack. Now this was out at January the 12th. So that was the other day, yesterday. Robert McMillan of IDG News. Paris Hilton’s website has been hacked and serving visitors malicious Trojan programs designed to steal sensitive information. Basically there is a security vendor called ScanSafe checking out their website, found that they were, visitors visit the site with a little pop-up, where they have to choose “yes” or “no”. You choose, install a file called Trojan-Spy-Zbot.YETH, which was actually from another site and that opened up the flood gates.
They believe thousands of websites may also be serving up this variant of the attack as well. However, Parishilton.com, the celebrity’s official site is the biggest target of this thing. This thing makes worst most anti-virus products or identifying Trojan programs being served by Parishilton.com. On Monday afternoon, only 12 of 37 vendors tested by VirusTotal detected the virus.
There you have it, can’t even go to Paris Hilton’s website to catch up on what Paris is doing, without get nailed by potential virus and Trojan. You don’t really -- it drives home the point that the internet is still a dangerous place. Is their server unpatched? Obviously something happened where somebody wasn’t keeping everything up-to-date and looking for vulnerabilities, but this is war all the time between the bad guys and the good guys. Your company’s website can be easily hacked if it’s not kept up-to-date in patched or if a new vulnerability your export has found.
Just need to know that, you need to make sure that your webmaster, your hosting service, all these guys are doing their job, making sure that everything is kept past up-to-date, then security is absolutely possible.
Hey! Do you want to get your fix on Paris Hilton? Don’t go to her website just yet. Hopefully that’s fixed by now, but nonetheless, that was just kind of interesting. What is –- I don’t get Paris Hilton. Do you? I just don’t see what she brings to the table? Why people are so interested in her? I don’t know.
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