Mass 'scareware' attack hits 1.5M websites, still spreading -

USA Today by Michael Winter | Apr. 2, 2011 (Special Report)

A massive attack that's trying to scare computer users into visiting a bogus antivirus site has infected more than 1.5 million websites and continues to spread, according to an Internet security firm.

Several pages on Apple's iTunes store have been infected.

The so-called LizaMoon "SQL injection attack" began Tuesday and is being tracked by Websense. Such attacks redirect users by exploiting programming errors and poorly written code and ... Full Story »

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 by Samuel W. Velsor IV - Apr. 2, 2011

Be sure you run scans on your system this weekend.

VentureBeat writes that the attack “shows that malware is a bigger menace than ever and that many web sites aren’t protected.”

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