Grinch Hacks Santa Claus' Website
Ericka Chickowski writes on SC Magazine Online:
Not even Santa Claus is safe from hackers this year, as StopBadware.org reported today that a philanthropist with the legal name of Santa Claus had his site targeted by hackers who uploaded an iframe that installed malicious software onto visitors' computersMore here.
The "neighborhood watch" organization had initially flagged the Nevada-resident's site, www[dot]santaslink[dot]net as a site containing malicious content. Through StopBadware's partnership with Google, vistiors directed to the children's advocate site through the search engine were being warned that they were at risk to enter.
When Claus contacted StopBadware to ask why his site was being filtered, the organization did a little digging and found that someone had snuck into the site and planted a badware link without Claus' knowledge.
posted by Fergie @ 12/21/2006 03:43:00 PM
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