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The official Malaysian Kaspersky Antivirus’s website has been hacked yesterday by a Turkish cracker going by the handle of “m0sted”.  Along with it, the same cracker hacked also the official Kaspersky S.E.S. online shop and its several other subdomains. 

The attacker reported “patriotism” as the reason behind the attack and “SQL Injection” as the technical way the intrusion was performed. Now possibly thousands of user records and credit cards are at risk of being sold for fraudulent purposes.

This is the reason why if you do frequent online stores, you should never save your online data with them.  If they have it, it can be stolen.  Most places give you the option.  NEVER say YES to this option. 

Being a former Philadelphia resident, I found this one very interesting.

Former Philadelphia news anchor Larry Mendte on Monday was charged with hacking into the e-mail accounts of Alycia Lane, his co-anchor at CBS affiliate KYW-TV and reported rival, hundreds of times over the course of two years.

During this time, Mendte allegedly leaked privileged legal information about Lane’s personal life to the press “in an attempt to undermine his colleague’s ongoing legal cases,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Laurie Magid at a press conference on Monday. (as reported in Information Week)

This type of activity is very common today.  People are always looking for an advantage over the competition.  And it’s not only email but personal files on people’s computers at home and at work. 

While nothing is 100%, it’s always important to remember the three rules of passwords; never share them with anyone, make sure they are strong (at least 6 characters, with mixed Alphanumeric and Chars) and change them on some regular basis.  It also helps to add some sort of token-based security as well.