trend report | DataProtectionCenter.com

Results of our compromised/hacked/stolen accounts survey

18

Oct

2011

In Late September we posted a survey where we asked you to tell us your stolen account stories. We have summarized the results in a special report “the state of hacked accounts” The data reveals that most users get hacked at high rates even when they do not think they are engaging in risky behavior, […]

Category Security Written by Commtouch Cafe 0 Comments

Spam outbreak makes large-scale use of compromised Yahoo, Hotmail, and AOL accounts as well as WordPress sites

11

Oct

2011

An ongoing outbreak is making extensive use of stolen accounts from Yahoo, Hotmail (Live) and AOL accounts. Sample emails sent from these accounts are shown below. A wide range of accounts have been tracked by Commtouch Labs – several thousand for each provider. The emails do not have a subject and simply feature a link […]

Category Security Written by Commtouch Cafe 0 Comments

Compromised websites provide neat spam sending form – based on PHPThumbs exploit

08

Aug

2011

What do the following websites have in common? www.alwaysnewyou.com – a health and beauty advice site levelvet.com – a Russian shopping site www.villahadir.lu – a site describing a restaurant in Luxembourg These sites and thousands more use a script called “PHPThumb” to manage the images on their webpages. The script allows page designers to fix […]

Category Security Written by Commtouch Cafe 0 Comments

The Latest in IT Security

Posts Tagged ‘trend report’

Results of our compromised/hacked/stolen accounts survey

Spam outbreak makes large-scale use of compromised Yahoo, Hotmail, and AOL accounts as well as WordPress sites

Compromised websites provide neat spam sending form – based on PHPThumbs exploit

Categories

Featured

Archives

Latest Comments

About Us

Contact Us