Weekly Web Hacking Incidents update for Feb 19th

[Ofer Shezaf <ofer () shezaf com>]

The Web Hacking Incidents Database (http://whid.webappsec.org), or WHID for
short, is a Web Application Security Consortium (http://www.webappsec.org)
project dedicated to maintaining a list of web applications related security
incidents. WHID goal is to serve as a tool for raising awareness of the web
application security problem and provide information for statistical
analysis of web applications security incidents.

The last week was very rich in Web Hacking Incidents. Too rich. The
following incidents where added to WHID last week:

* WHID 2009-26: F-Secure Joins The Breached AV Vendors Club
        http://whid.webappsec.org/whid/2009/26/f-secure_breached
* WHID 2009-20: BitDefender joins Kasperski on the Breached side
        http://whid.webappsec.org/whid/2009/20/bitdefender_joins_kasperski
        The duo join Kasperski which was breached last week.

* WHID 2009-25: Zone-H defaced
        http://whid.webappsec.org/whid/2009/25/zone-h_defaced
        The defacements archive site got defaced itself.

* WHID 2009-24: New Phishing Attacks Combine Wildcard DNS and XSS
        http://whid.webappsec.org/whid/2009/24/phishing_combine_dns_xss
        A new blended attack threat interesting for the techies among us

* WHID 2009-23: Miley Cyrus Twitter Account Hit By Sex-Obsessed Hacker 
        http://whid.webappsec.org/whid/2009/23/miley_cyrus_twitter_hacked
        Twitter again. A Celebrity Again.

* WHID 2009-22: Federal Travel Booking Site Spreads Malware
        
http://whid.webappsec.org/whid/2009/22/fed_travel_site_spreads_malware
        One of the more serious iframe planting cases recently

* WHID 2009-21: This Time Uno is after the Herald Tribute
        http://whid.webappsec.org/whid/2009/21/uno_is_after_the_tribute

~ Ofer

Ofer Shezaf [shezaf () xiom com, +972-54-4431119, www.xiom.com]

Founder, Xiom.com, Proactive Web Application Security, http://www.xiom.com
Leader, WASC Web Hacking Incidents Database Project
Chairman, OWASP Israel