Many companies remain vulnerable to attacks against domain name system servers, despite efforts to secure them, according to a new study. More than half the respondents to a Mazerov Research and Consulting study reported having fallen victim to some form of malware attack. More than one-third had been hit by a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, and more than 44 percent had experienced a pharming or cache-poisoning attack.
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Malicious code embedded in about two dozen MySpace pages downloads the dangerous FluxBot onto victims’ machines. Internet Storm Center researchers are warning users that drive-by exploits have been embedded in a few dozen legitimate MySpace pages.
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A new hacking method is causing concern for the lengths it goes to avoid detection by security software and researchers. The attack involves a website that has been hacked to host malicious code, an increasingly common trap on the Internet. If a user visits one of the sites with an unpatched machine, it’s possible that the computer can become automatically infected with code that can record keystrokes and steal financial data typed into forms.
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