RE: CA Web site hacked by malware authors

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

Thanks for the exact link.

To clarify, I meant that several Web sites pointing to original source article included non-working computerworld links.

Juha-Matti

robert_mcmillan () idg com wrote: 
> I see the article here.
>
> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9055599&intsrc=hm_list
>
> The links work fine.
>
> Bob
>
> Robert McMillan
> Senior Writer, IDG News
> 501 Second Street, Suite 600
> San Francisco, CA 94107
> 415 974-7470
>
> The IDG News Service is the world's leading daily source of global IT news,
> commentary and editorial resources, serving more than 300 IDG publications
> and 400 Web sites in more than 50 countries worldwide. IDG publications
> include Computerworld, CIO magazine, and PC World.
>
> funsec-bounces () linuxbox org wrote on 01/08/2008 03:21:59 AM:
>
> > For some reason all article links released pointed to the non-
> > existing url. Do they even test the source links being released...
> >
> > Juha-Matti
> >
> > Alex Eckelberry <AlexE () sunbelt-software com> wrote:
> > > This original article link is fubar:
> > >
> > >
> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&;
> > > articleId=9055578&intsrc=news_ts_head
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
> > > On Behalf Of Juha-Matti Laurio
> > > Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 9:32 AM
> > > To: funsec () linuxbox org
> > > Subject: [funsec] CA Web site hacked by malware authors
> > >
> > > >From Hack In The Box story:
> > >
> > > "Part of security software vendor CA's Web site was hacked earlier this
> > > week and was redirecting visitors to a malicious Web site hosted in
> > > China.
> > >
> > > Although the problem now appears to have been corrected, cached
> versions
> > > of some pages in the press section of CA.com show that earlier this
> week
> > > the site had been redirecting visitors to the uc8010.com domain, which
> > > has been serving malicious software since late December, according to
> > > Marcus Sachs, director of the SANS Internet Storm Center."
> > >
> > > Link to the short article is
> > >
> http://hackinthebox.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&si
> > > d=25396&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
> > >
> > > Source: Computer World
> > >
> > > Juha-Matti
> > >

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