By Laura
Yecies
Search continues to be a major
avenue for hacker attacks. This time, existing and potential customers of the
uber-exclusive Citadel Investment Group
were duped into visiting a cloned
site hosted somewhere in China. It’s akin to a phishing
attack, except instead of tricking people through e-mail, the hackers used
Google…
“If you typed
"Citadel,""hedge" and "fund" into Google in December, a curious site called
"cita del-group.net" popped up. It bore the hedge fund's turreted logo, but the
site contained some unique alterations, such as contact information written in
Chinese.”
Full story:
http://news.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?z=20&a=348547
This tactic is one that worries
those of us in security, because it takes more than just one product or idea to
have a fully effective defense strategy:
-It takes the vendors, with
innovations like ZoneAlarm ForceField to warn you about potentially fake or
cloned Web sites appearing on search engines before you fall victim;
-It takes extra diligence on your
part and a healthy dose of skepticism when linking to any site that exposes you
to financial risk (type the URL yourself instead);
-It takes extreme vigilance from
search engines to prevent them from being exploited as a platform for hackers
(the days of simply cataloguing any and all Web sites must end…legitimacy must
be determined);
-And it requires financial and
shopping sites to make security the highest consideration (instead of “managing
risk” with ROI calculators).
Search engines are useful and
necessary tools of your Internet experience. Armed with a little knowledge and a
little technological help, and you can have a safe searching experience too…
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Posted by: saroosh | November 26, 2008 at 11:55 PM
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well… you guys doing nice work and i just want to say that keep rocking and keep it up !!!!
Regards
Saroosh
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