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February 3, 2007

Super Bowl Trojans . . . Super Bowl Website Hacked

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 8:17 pm

This Is Serious

“Super Bowl site hacked, seeded with exploits” The link is to an article at Zdnet.

The official Web site of Dolphin Stadium, home of Sunday’s Super Bowl XLI, has been hacked and seeded with exploit code targeting two known Windows security flaws.

Full access to your computer, via keystroke logger (spyware) backdoor Trojan (you click on what you think is an interactive functionality, like a game, or external link, or forum comment posting, or advertisement), if unpatched Windows system.

Uber horrible news for ecommerce hopes.

[ZDNET — Updated #2: February 2, 2007 @ 5:13 pm] All the affected Miami Dolphins sites (see Alexa traffic data) have now been disinfected but there is evidence that hundreds of other sites have been hijacked and rigged with the malicious JavaScript code.

Thanks to Vaspers the Grate read more in his post “botnet farming at Super Bowl site.”

PLEASE BE SURE YOUR WINDOWS MACHINE IS FULLY PATCHED.

–ME ‘Liz” Strauss

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2 Comments to “Super Bowl Trojans . . . Super Bowl Website Hacked”

  1. February 4th, 2007 at 10:08 am
    V-+a%S(p#E*rsT=`hE..]gra_Te[ said

    Thanks for getting the word out. It’s another example of our web communal home and brotherly/sisterly connectedness, I subscribe to ZDNet Blogs alerts, daily, and there’s always something new and relevant to learn in at least one on the list of fresh posts.

    ZDNet blogger warns me, I pass it on to my special brain-trust via non-commercial email marketing mini-campaign, get great results, even The Roblimo thanked me and then we went into another discussion.

    Then you post this, re-messaging to protect our readers and peers. It’s not about “viral” it seems to me to be more about “agggressively compassionate pro-consumerism”.

  2. February 4th, 2007 at 10:26 am
    ME Strauss said

    Ah, Vaspers, I decided last night that I think your vocabulary teachers should all have gotten bonuses . . . or maybe it is the person who bought you your first dictionary. :)

    You’re right about viral though. You can’t call it viral when we do it with purpose. And who wants to be something infectious anyway? :)

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