Archive for September, 2007

‘Professional’ hackers at large

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

A bunch of hackers using a commercial hacking program (MPack) are on the loose, and causing some considerable concerns amongst web-site owners and hosting companies.
They are accessing multiple web sites to add a single line of code directly to the main index pages, which closes down the browser window and brings up a pop-up [...]

Joomla CMS exploits

Monday, September 17th, 2007

We’ve noticed a couple of instances recently of sites running Joomla CMS being exploited and a script being installed to send out bulk unsolicited email. In releases of Joomla version 1.0.11 upwards, a modified htaccess.txt file has been included within the bundle which implements some relevant security settings.
It is important for anyone running PHP script [...]

SPF mail protection

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

Nowadays more and more spam mail is being sent using fake email addresses - Well, it’s fake as far as the spammers sending the mails are concerned but, when it’s your address they’re using, it can mean considerable inconvenience dealing with bounced messages that you never sent and trying to restore your integrity.
SPF (or Sender [...]