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Post by Faygo on Jun 25, 2004 14:11:25 GMT -5
Web Virus May Be Stealing Financial Data
By ANICK JESDANUN
NEW YORK (AP) - A mysterious Internet virus being spread Friday by hundreds and possibly thousands of infected Web sites may be aimed at stealing credit card and other valuable information, security experts warned.
The infection appears to take advantage of three separate flaws with Microsoft Corp. products. Microsoft said software updates to fix two of them had been released in April, but the third flaw was newly discovered and had no patch to fix it yet.
Experts said the infection, detected by Microsoft on Thursday, was unusually broad but wasn't substantially interfering with Internet traffic.
Security experts at Microsoft and elsewhere worked Friday to pin down how the infection spreads across Web sites. It appears to target at least one recent version of Microsoft software for operating Web sites - called Internet Information Server.
The infection makes subtle changes to the Web site so visitors get a piece of code that's designed to retrieve from a Russian Web site software that records a person's keystrokes and can send data back, experts say. Such software ``Trojan horses'' are routinely used to fish for credit card numbers, bank accounts, passwords and the like.
Now that the code is out, other hackers are likely to adapt it to distribute software for spamming and for launching broad Internet attacks against popular Web sites, said Alfred Huger, senior director of engineering at security company Symantec Corp.
``Users should be aware that any Web site, even those that may be trusted by the user, may be affected by this activity and thus contain potentially malicious code,'' the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team warned in an Internet alert.
Stephen Toulouse, a security program manager at Microsoft, recommended that computer owners obtain the latest security updates for Microsoft products and their anti-virus and firewall programs.
Because one flaw has yet to be fixed, he said, users should also turn up security settings on Microsoft's Internet Explorer browsers to the highest levels.
Security experts noted that users can avoid the exploit by using alternative browsers such as Mozilla and Opera. Users could also turn off the ``Javascript'' feature on their Microsoft browsers, though doing so cripple functions on some sites.
The infection does not affect Macintosh versions of Internet Explorer
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Post by Colloff on Jun 25, 2004 19:56:19 GMT -5
and THAT friends, is why u should never give credit card #'s and stuff of the sort out on the internet =) i guess we're okay, besides, we're too poor to make use of internet buying
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Post by Aristotle on Jun 25, 2004 22:33:30 GMT -5
I agree. you are too poor. ;D im just kidding, but this whole worm stuff kinda freaks me out. luckily however, my mom had enough internet sense to get us a firewall and virus protector. even so, the whole idea is freaky.
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Post by Colloff on Jun 26, 2004 10:26:05 GMT -5
Yeah well, u better be happy Doug doesn't control your interned or else u'd be sooooo screwed ;D
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Post by Aristotle on Jun 27, 2004 10:18:59 GMT -5
im figuring out how to password protect internet controlls and sites.
P.S. who knows how to password protect a program?
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Post by Faygo on Jun 29, 2004 16:56:29 GMT -5
Just out of curiosity, who gave you the PW to the
core, Jacob?
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Post by Aristotle on Jun 29, 2004 18:15:09 GMT -5
i believe it was jusin or colby
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Post by Colloff on Jun 29, 2004 18:21:46 GMT -5
'twas me. He has a right to know what we're talking about being as he comes over seans and colbys.
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Post by Faygo on Jun 29, 2004 20:21:24 GMT -5
'twas me. He has a right to know what we're talking about being as he comes over seans and colbys.
Well, now that he has access, it isn't a big deal.
But since he isn't part of the crew, can you avoid from
telling other people the PW? Only people in the crew
should really be allowed in here, which includes Matt.
Sorry. ^^; |
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Post by Colloff on Jul 1, 2004 20:08:36 GMT -5
no worries he's the only one i told.
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Post by Aristotle on Jul 2, 2004 13:21:07 GMT -5
guess what jacob got a popup blocker! my mom walked in at the very moment my comp was spammed with about none sex popups, and is blaming me! oh well, now i have a little program that makes a little rocket sound whenever a popup is automatically closed.
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Post by Colloff on Jul 4, 2004 12:29:53 GMT -5
good, sometimes you get those. or is jacob getting curious??  =) j/k |
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Post by Aristotle on Jul 7, 2004 12:29:36 GMT -5
lol but no seriously it was a complete accident. i was doing a google serch on inuyasha music archives and when i clicked on a link, i was just completely pummeled with popups. when i tried to x out of them they opened even more, and then my mom walked in. i thought at that very moment- DAM
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Post by Colloff on Jul 9, 2004 18:31:02 GMT -5
yup...sumthing simmilar happened to matt when he was typing in angelfire's name (on seans old site) and it was a porn site because he reversed 2 letters, then his mom walked in as popups flooded him...fun
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Post by Aristotle on Jul 9, 2004 22:01:57 GMT -5
awesome. but as you can see i am still alive. PS why do popups for stimulants and ---is pumps flash onto the screen in such huge proportions only on sites like that??
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=) j/k