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HEUR:Trojan.Script.Iframe

March 22nd, 2009 · 55 Comments

One of my friend asked for help about virus appearing on his sites (mostly WordPress sites).  I checked it out and my Kaspersky Internet Security blocked the pages from loading, so i downloaded the files manually and scanned with Kaspersky to determine affected files.

I noticed that the affected files were PHP and HTML only and [...]

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Denial of Service (DoS) attacks becoming more common

November 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Within a week I had seen the term DOS or Denial of Service being mentioned in two mainstream publications, the WJS and more recently in this article – Internet Attacks Grow More Potent -  by the Wall Street Journal.
“We’re definitely seeing more targeted attacks toward e-commerce sites,” said Danny McPherson, chief security officer for Arbor [...]

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