http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/ Reported Attack Page ?

[InTheSky]

Am I the only one having problem with the web page this morning ?

My browser report me that this web site is dangerous to browse ... ?

Regards,

Frank
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Frank



Proud member of http://photoclubalpha.com

 

[Willy81]

Below was copied from their link:

Sonyalpharumors back soon

You all will have noticed that google marks this website as “dangerous”. There have been a hack attempt tonight we solved very quickly. The problem is google blocked the website. I asked google to reaccept the website but sadly google will need a the whole day to reaccept the website. In summary, SonyAlphaRumors is a safe website but it’s google that is very slow in updating their servers!

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A900 w/Zeiss Glass

 

[mike_2008]

Well it's not safe if it's easily hacked, is it?
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The fact that a-mount lenses are still worth any money at all is thanks to the success of SLT.

 

[carljervis]

Well it's not safe if it's easily hacked, is it?
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The fact that a-mount lenses are still worth any money at all is thanks to the success of SLT.

A brave man states that on a Sony based forum

 

[mike532]

no website is safe from a sufficiently determined hacker.
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mike
http://mypicks.efikim.co.uk

 

[Geir Eivind Mork]

Well it's not safe if it's easily hacked, is it?

By running a well known CRM/Blog system your open to attacks exploiting faults in that. That can also go for the webserver, database server and other parts that forms a website. Usually such malicious work is done by a program that make a websearch after a certain software version that the creators have found an exploitable flaw in - then exploit that flaw and put in whatever code they want to spread.

So it is not targeted towards SAR in particular, neither anything Sony for that matter. Just because they ran a particular software that had a flaw in that particular version.

I've experienced the same a couple of times when not upgrading the software ran on one of the companys servers.

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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing
.. Camille pissarro

 

[Condor99]

Sonyalpharumors is a dangerous site. Some people actually believe the rumors they print like as if it is the word of God.
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Tom Seiler
My portfolio:
http://picasaweb.google.com/SeilerBird/MyPortfolio
Sony a55
Sony a330 Copper
Tamron 200-500mm
Sony 75-300mm
Sony 18-55mm
Rokinon 8mm

 

[wombat37]

I picked up the trojan FakeAV from there last night - identified and quarantined by AVG but not before it trashed my Internet Explorer so no web access from that PC at the moment.

 

[NowHearThis]

I got the MS Removal Tool virus, I went to bleepingcomputer.com one thing they suggested to reset my IE (and Google chrome) was the following:
Right Click in the IE icon (assuming you have one on your desktop).
Click on the connections tab.
Click on the Lan Settings - a new window pulls up.
Uncheck the "Use proxy server..." check box. Click OK, then click OK again.

Hope that helps somewhat.

I picked up the trojan FakeAV from there last night - identified and quarantined by AVG but not before it trashed my Internet Explorer so no web access from that PC at the moment.

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NHT
while ( ! ( succeed = try() ) );

 

[wombat37]

Yes, you were correct - the virus had modified my proxy server settings. Fortunately it was easy to reverse. It also took out my desktop and disabled the task manager.

Fortunately I survived this time. There's a lot of this type of trojan/virus around at the moment.