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National Government Servers Hosting Phishing Sites
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:54:46 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via the Symantec Security Response Blog. [snip] In recent months, Symantec has detected a number of phishing sites that have been hosted on government URLs. In June alone, phishing sites were identified on government sites from the following countries: Thailand (.go.th), Indonesia (.go.id), Hungary (.gov.hu), Bangladesh (.gov.bd), Argentina (.gov.ar), Sri Lanka (.gov.lk), Ukraine (.gov.ua), China (.gov.cn), Brazil (.gov.br), Bosnia and Herzegovina (.gov.ba), Columbia (.gov.co), and Malaysia (.gov.my). This might come as a surprise to some people, as governments are thought to have very secure computer systems. However, the quantity of phishing sites hosted on government domains around the world seems to suggest otherwise. [snip] More: http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2007/07/governm ent_servers_hosting_phi.html Note: While this is not really news to anyone working in the security industry, it may indeed be news to others outside of those circles. It does, however, illustrate that the state of website security is amazing poor these days, and websites that appear to be "official" are not immune to compromise if they implemented poorly and/or insecurely. $.02, - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.2 (Build 2014) wj8DBQFGlnjzq1pz9mNUZTMRAraZAKCEWppyDqLgPlViO0iIVBrvVMdAkwCglFij G7GzlHkaB6SkCTffcUlzwYM= =Zk5J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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