Hacker Hits Kaspersky Website

was just literally about to post this..

 

I was just thinking "This isn't the first time Kaspersky's www's have been hijacked " and there it is in the link

Amazing that Any AV vendors www could be compromised, but twice that's just sloppy & careless, and their IT etc people need some serious talking to and retraining ASAP

I wonder if Kaspersky will compensate any/all affected ?

 

It,s broken record ... this one,s or that one,s site compromised. Like any OS can be compromised, similarly any site can be compromised by targeted attack. It,s no surprise IMO.

 

@ aigle

Not really !

We might expect a one person or smallish company www with not much clue to get compromised, as they do every day as seen in for eg MDL etc. But not medium to large companies etc with dedicated IT depts, and Especially companies who are "supposed" to be at the leading edge of understanding malware exploits etc etc

What kind of an example is that ! and the've let it happen again I would have thought the embarrasment of the first time would be enough to make certain it never occurred ever again !

The rogues who did it must be ~ Snipped as per TOS ~ themselves laughing.

 

very true lol

 

This is not good for them

 

true that

 

This is another example of why site advisors\ranking systems are not 100% effective.

Isolate your web browser

 

the way kis 2011 works at moment users may have less problems if they DID install the rogue!

 

It like seeing a Fire Station on Fire...

 

OMG! Haven't looked at the Kaspersky forums yet, but I wonder if the Mods are working triple time regarding this?

Btw, wasn't one of Bitdefender's security branches breached during the same time that Kaspersky was the first time? I thought people using Bullguard were also affected since it used the Bitdefender engine (of course other AV's do to)

If I remember correctly, I think F-Secure had some kind of problem within so many months before the first attack on Kaspersky. Also, Symantec was injected too though they kept stating nothing was compromised (around the same time Kaspersky was hit the first time, though I don't know if it was the same hacker?)

 

One wonders how many of these things probably go on though on a daily basis that an AV vendor's customers don't know about!

 

I could excuse it the first time but each additional time it happens...

 

It was the US site both times...one wonders if the people in charge of the US website are competent.

Also on a side note, even the mighty Microsoft got owned recently: (albeit with penis pills) theregister.co.uk/2010/10/12/microsoft_ips_hijacked/

 

Oh, I would say as competent as the people who hired them.

 

I'll give credit for the fact that it is difficult to keep up with a site in another country from the main company but if they care about their image they had better make sure someone very competent is put in charge of that site real fast.

Not good on Microsoft's part either. They way people are leaving there I hope the last one remembers to shut down the servers on their way out.

 

sites are based on servers where you have to open ports for clients to download which make them 24/7 visible and vulnerable on net also they have static ip which is second big problem even you are behind gateway hackers know your ip and also know that you are up(ie online) so they keep trying for jackpot

its like bunch of guys playing in Vegas some time they win and it could happen any where is las vegas

same rule with sites so no big deal it could happen to any site

but in home pc things are different you get all ports closed secondly most of us have dynamic ip which keep changing there is no such things as user is up until you are infected or bad firewall/router configuration .....etc

so in short jackpot are very less chances to happen as compare to server until you done something foolish.

at end i like to add i like KIS very much al thou i use linux most but when even i use my windows i still relay on KIS this stunt doesn't make me change my mind.

 

LOL

Hmm I wonder which AV company will fall in this trap next!

 

My laptop has GData on it & it would not let that site load. I thought it may have been a fp, guess not!

 

hate to say but i agree...

 

lol very sadly true

 

Dumped KAV 2011 after it was very buggy on my computer. Now using Emsisoft AM and happy I made the switch.

 

I also dumped KIS 2011 due to its bugs and bad service.
Now I use NIS 2011 and i'm very happy with that choice.