Hot News :: Web Security and Defacement

(You maybe the next victim, If you are still using the conventional Web servers, such as Apache, IIS etc, ..)

2010

[2010.04.12] 'Design Flaw' Led To Wave Of Attacks On Hundreds Of WordPress Blogs
[2010.01.29] 49 Congressional Websites Hacked By Brazilian 'Red Eye Crew'
[2010.01.26] Report: More Than 560,000 Websites and 5.5 million Web pages Infected In Q4, 2009
[2010.01.12] U.S. Army Website Hacked by Romanian hackers with SQL injecttion
[2010.01.12] Baidu, China's top search engine, Says Hackers Disabled Web Site
[2010.01.06]  Hackers Replace European Union President With Mr. Bean

2009

[12.23.2009] Intel Website Hacked With SQL Injection
[12.22.2009] Hackers Hit OpenX Ad Server in Adobe Attack, several popular Web sites have been placed with malicious code over the past week
12.18.2009] Hackers take Twitter offline for a while
[10.09.2009] FBI Jobs site gets hacked
[10.01.2009] Large online payroll service hacked, hackers broke into onlineemployer.com portal site.
[09.21.2009] Gaming mouse-maker Razer hit with infected firmware, with only 7 out of 41 vendors offering generic detection!
[08.24.2009] U.S. says SQL injection hacks used in major breaches. 130 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen!
[05.07.2009] Web site offline as police, FBI investigate $10M extortion bid.
[04.21.2009] Microsoft's main site was defaced, together with the sites for MSN, Windows Live, Hotmail and MSDN.
[03.06.2009] Romanian Hacker Moves On To The Telegraph
[02.09.2009] Kaspersky Web Site Hacked With SQL Injection, Kaspersky is one of the leading companies in the security and antivirus market.
[01.13.2009] The Top 10 Internet Registrars Hosting Spammers, Illicit Sites
[01.13.2009] Pro-Israeli Site Recruiting Voluntary Bot Militia To Attack Hamas Websites
[01.05.2009] Hackers hijack Obama's, Britney's accounts on Twitter Site
[12.31.2008] 300+ Israeli Websites over the past few days have been defaced with anti-Israeli and anti-U.S. messages after Israel's bombing of Gaza.

2008

[12.30.2008] Researchers hack VeriSign's SSL scheme for securing Web sites
[12.01.2008] CBS Web site bitten by iFrame hack. It served remote malware to visitors
[11.07.2008] Thousands hit in broad Web hack. Malicious links were placed on over 10,000 servers.
[10.03.2008] Over 200,000 Web masters have not known their Web site has been controlled by hackers. The sites are such as Fortune 500 firms, weapons manufacturers, governments, including U.S. Postal Service, etc.
[09.18.2008] Hacked Texas National Guard site serves up malware
[09.15.2008] BusinessWeek site attacked, turned into malware playground
[09.12.2008] Hackers hit Large Hadron Collider Web site
[08.22.2008] Olympic champion Phelps' website defaced in Turkish hack
[08.13.2008] Olympics news sites hit with attacks.
[08.11.2008] Cyberattacks knock out Georgia's Internet presence. Some Georgian government and commercial sites are unavailable.
[07.30.2008] Microsoft Web sites got dafaced again!
[07.21.2008] Georgia president's Web site falls under DDOS attack
[07.09.2008] Internet flaw could let hackers take over the Web
[07.02.2008] Sony PlayStation Site Hacked With 'Scareware'
[06.27.2008] Hackers hijack critical Internet organization sites
[06.08.2008] Fraudsters hack into Home Office website
[04.23.2008] Infected Web Site Numbers Soaring, A new Infected site appearing once every 5 seconds...
[04.23.2008]  U.N. and UK Government Site Victim Of Global Malware Attack
[04.22.2008] Obama Website Hacked: Users Redirected To Clinton Campaign
[03.30.2008] Hackers expand massive IFrame attack to prime sites: including USA Today, ABC News, Target and Wal-Mart...
[03.13.2008] Even Web site of a large Anti-Viruses vendor of Trend Micro was ifected and distribute Viruses! CA is also!

2007

[11.08.2007] MySpace Hacked, Exploits Target Alicia Keys' Page And Others
[09.21.2007] Exploiting Web 2.0: The Barbarians Inside the Firewall, Gartner predicts that by the end of 2007, 75 percent of enterprises will be infected...
[08.12.2007] Hackers protest US, Israeli actions on UN website
[06.27.2007] Microsoft Defaced, again!   [05.03.2007] Bill Gates Defaced!
[06.22.2007] 4000 compromised sites deliver the malicious code, Porn sites serve up Mpack attacks
[06.21.2007] New web threats gain momentum, 10,000 new web pages are infected every day
[02.17.2007] Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission's website attacked!
[02.12.2007] 'Fortress' security is medieval. Bill Gates derided the idea about perimeter defense..

2006

[10.28.2006] Google was used to hide and spread viruses and malicous code!
[07.28.2006] Cyberwar: huge websites has been attacked as a protest against the invasion of Lebanon by Israel....
[05.18.2006] Biggest defacements incident: over 21,000 in May,17, 17,000 in May 18, and then....
[04.06.2006] Over 300 Web sites were defaced around the world within 5 days.  Taiwan takes  70% ...
[01.31.2006] AMD Website was hacked and be used to infect visitor's PC with the malicious code....
[01.03.2006] Many Websites have been hacked and comprised to deliver the WMF attack to PC....

2005

[10.11.2005] Server Hacks, Site Defacement Growing. 186 attacks on U.S. government servers......
[08.11.2005] 4 NASA Web sites were defaced by an Iran Hacker ......
[07.06.2005] Microsoft UK Web site was Hacked again before one day of London bomb attacks...
[06.03.2005] Hackers hit MSN Korea, inserted malicious code into web pages, and then.....

2004

[12.21.2004] Santy Worm using Google to spread.  40,000 sites have been defaced ....
[08.31.2004] Hundreds of computers at Defense Department and U.S. Senate were hijacked....
[06.25.2004] 1000+ web sites including popular sites were infected with malicious code ....
[01.22.2004] 130 web sites of China government were defaced within 10 days....

2003

[08.27.2003] The Boston Blobe: Hackers take control of bank site, disable online banking..
[07.06.2003] Yahoo: Hackers Contest:  Break Into Thousands of Web Sites in 6 hours...

2002

[04.10.2002] FBI survey: 70% of the Web site's were replaced by hacker....
[03.22.2002] Three Microsoft's websites were altered by hackers on March, 2002!