Web sites across China and Taiwan are being hit by a mass SQL injection attack that has implanted malware in thousands of Web sites, according to a security company in Taiwan.
First detected on May 13, the attack is coming from a server farm inside China, which has made no effort to hide its IP (Internet Protocol) addresses, said Wayne Huang, chief executive officer of Armorize Technologies, in Taipei.
Web users are getting more ruthless and selfish when they go online, reveals research.
The annual report into web habits by usability guru Jakob Nielsen shows people are becoming much less patient when they go online.
Instead of dawdling on websites many users want simply to reach a site quickly, complete a task and leave.
See full BBC article from “the great man” of usability Jakob Nielsen here.
So, wasn’t just us it seems.
Someone is having fun out there.
Seems there are a few easy to use “toolkits” available online for hackers to easily target and attack ASP based websites.
timetoupgradetodotnet.com
Full article on ZDNet here.
Currently, we’re being targeted by person or persons unknown, who are undertaking a concerted SQL Injection Attack against many of our old websites based on ASP.
Reports in the last 5 minutes from our server farm managers state that we are not the only one’s being targeted, and a number of website we know of who are hosted elsewhere, are also experiencing the attack.
My mate @ Ninemsn doesn’t seem to have any reports similar, but I’ve ask him to keep and ear out just in case.
We’ve create a concept design for the website.
This brings the ideal and concept to life a little more, so I can now talk and “show” to those I met with over the coming months.
I’ve not had much time lately to follow up on my initial enquiries, but intend o send lots of correspondence over the June long weekend.
An example of crime prevention using technology: not the same as S.P.A.R.S but has relevance via the SMS system alerts to Police.
Latest weapon in fighting crime: anonymous text message tips.
Cops everywhere may soon be armed with a quietly powerful weapon: the text message.
Law enforcement agencies are hoping to get a new stream of crime tips, especially from teens and young adults, thanks to a new software program that promises anonymity for anyone texting from a mobile phone or personal digital assistant.
We (as you can see from other posts) were robbed @ home recently.
Fortunately, the wife had ensured we were insured with NRMA Home & Contents.
Today, I took delivery of my replacement PS3.
I must recommend NRMA Home & Contents to anyone currently insured, or looking for insurance, as they have been fast, efficient and absolutely responsive to our needs.
Dear Stuart,
Thanks for your email about your concept to assist reduce the financial gain from burgulary. I am sorry to hear about your experiences of being robbed and commend you for trying to come up with a positive from this bad experience.
In response to your query about who you could discuss your ideas with and help you develop this concept, I am aware that at a federal level Small Business Minister Craig Emerson announced on Budget night that the first Rudd Labor Government Budget provides $42 million to fund one-stop small business advisory centres across Australia. As this is a new initiative, however, the business advisory centres have yet to be established. They may be of future interest to you nevertheless. I have provided a link to the AusIndustry Website providing information about the Business Enterprise Centres (BECs):
If you would like more information about the BECs or to find out whether AusIndustry has any other programs that might be of assistance to you I would encourage to call the AusIndustry Hotline on 13 28 46 or email hotline@ausindustry.gov.au.
Alternatively, as the issues your concept is dealing with are primarily state government responsibilities (eg crime and police), you might want to consider contacting your NSW state member of parliament, Verity Firth, and ask whether she can direct you to any NSW State Government programs that might be of assistance to you. Her email address is balmain@parliament.nsw.gov.au.
I hope that this information is of use to you and I wish you every success in developing your ideas.
Best wishes,
Tanya
The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP
Federal Member for Sydney
Useful site to subscribe to the RSS feed.
Reports on all new .com startups, what they are, what they do and allows for user votes to rate their worth (more votes, better the start up is).
Lots of irrelevant (to me) ones, but some real gems like mystickies.com
Check it out here!
A few posts ago, I was on my soap box about a top Web2.0 idea I had for reducing home break in thefts et al.
I’ve created a basic website IA for the idea (see PDF file 268kb size) stolenpropertyiaconceptv10b for this idea, see attached and let me know what you think.
Also, created a basic brand (see below) for the site, a full desig
n will be coming soon, which I intend on applying to the IA and producing a mock-presentation site to show off to anyone who will listen.
Will aim to talk to the MP of my area (Tanya Plibersek) whom I’ve already emailed (and got a reply from the office of Commissioner of Police, Mr Andrew Scipione so clearly Tanya’s office has flipped it on which is a solid).
Also looking to approach and discuss the idea with Insurance Companies (need to send it to the NRMA Claims person, see where it goes from there) and finally Crime Stoppers but I’m yet to ID a person in there (know anyone?).
More soon when things have progressed a bit.
Tanya Plibersek Email Thread:
From: Michelle Funston [mailto:funs1mic@police.nsw.gov.au]
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 2:22 PM
To: Stuart Sheridan
Subject: Acknowledgement re online website – reducing home robberies
Dear Mr Sheridan,
Thank you for your recent email to the Commissioner of Police, Mr Andrew Scipione dated 1 May 2008, regarding your ideas for an online website aimed at reducing the incentives and financial reward outcomes for criminals involved in residential robberies. Commissioner Scipione has asked that I acknowledge receipt of your correspondence on his behalf.
Your enquiry has been referred to the Commander, Policy and Programs, for the attention of the Crime Prevention Team, for further enquiry. A more detailed response will be forwarded to you at the completion of those enquiries.
Yours sincerely,
Michelle Funston
Correspondence Clerk
Correspondence Unit
Office of the Commissioner of Police
