[Itpolicy-np] Re: Why Popular Sites are hosting Malware often ?

[Bipin Gautam]

Someone should take responsibility about this!

When information is power, anyone can put some malware in their
website/blog for an Intel-OPs and and say..... ooo m sorry... i didnt
know about it!!!

#How do you distinguish between a deliberate or an accidental incident:

Intent? -> how long has the website been infected? how many infection?
For an website maintained by ISP noone uses FIREFOX to see the
warning!

End result? -> Profile of users, who visit the websites? who got
infected? Implication? Risk?

Having said that,
This week is a big week. It is National Crime Victims Rights’ Week...
https://groups.google.com/group/nepsecure/msg/9f2bd0e751e84a8c
...

I came to know from a source our government servers are repeatedly
hosting mailware.

In other News Mercentile Communication seem to loose a big "lum sum"
of corporate data and personal records including login and sources of
nepalnews.com! They even host keygens there... ;)

what is corporate data doing online:
http://74.125.77.132/search?hl=ne&source=hp&q=cache%3Ademo.com.np
...
(looks like google cache of the website has been deleted) but when it
comes to folk-tails about poor Info-Sec hygiene  NTC is an uncontested
queen... )


It is the duty of the service provider to assure integrity of the
content they serve.


Privacy down side of safe browsing feature in firefox is, you leak
every website you visit to google and it can be correlated with your
identity (gmail, facebook) and browsing habits!

If you look at the video i referred previously "Century of the self"
you will get insights how this data is being used to manipulate your
subconscious with marketing, business and politics. Topic is
"Engineering of Consent" , quiet contradictory to Buddhist belief and
how capitalism work!


Episode One: Happiness Machines
Episode Two: The Engineering of Consent
Episode Three: There is a Policeman Inside All Our Head: He Must Be Destroyed
Episode Four: Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering

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On 12/15/10, Navin <navinyolmo at gmail.com> wrote:
> so far a site doesn't host malwares intentionally ,.. it's the Ad that
> carries the devious malwares.. :)
> tools like malwarebyte's anti-malware be used.. and one thing , firefox is
> pretty sensitive, it's
> not the end of the world when it shows some error msgs. other browsers do
> exist.
>
> I think Google is removing all those malware ADs from Adwords
>
> and yeah, check this out:
> http://www.dailytech.com/Google+Microsoft+Duped+Into+Serving+Malware+Ads/article20373c.htm
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Kshitiz Shrestha
> <kshrestha777 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear Sir,
>>
>> Firstly CyberNepal and Now Nepalnews.com
>> These are the most visited and most popular sites of Nepal, the security
>> breach in these sites can lead
>> to spread of malware to many innocent users.
>> The administrator who maintains these site should be more responsible and
>> should take  security consideration more
>> seriously.
>> Bipin, Please provide the necessary  guidelines that should be consider by
>> the serious admins.
>> Please help.
>>
>> http://nepalnews.com
>>
>> http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?client=Firefox&hl=en-US&site=http://nepalnews.com/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Kshitiz Shrestha
>>
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