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How to detect inserted hidden illicit content in web pages

Hackers exploit security vulnerabilities in popular web software such as blogs, forums, CMS, image galleries and wikis to insert hidden illicit content into web pages of innocent third-party web sites.

Thousands of web site owners are unaware that their sites are hacked and infected with parasites.

So what you think is your website might not be really yours after all.

One tool to detect the presence of suspicious URLs in hidden frames is by using this tool:

http://www.unmaskparasites.com/

I used this to detect Gumblar, a botnet that infects Web servers and infected Web site visitors for the purposes of installing malcode on PCs that redirects end-user Google searches to fraudulent Web sites.

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Tips on creating strong passwords

http://www.ofzenandcomputing.com/zanswers/19

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UNIX ownership and permissions provide for privacy and participation

As submitted by Gregd at digg:

“This article looks at user privileges and, in particular, examines how to manipulate file permissions to restrict or share your directories and files with others. Understanding permissions is crucial if you want to speak UNIX fluently…” (more…)

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SQL Injection walkthru

http://www.acunetix.com/websitesecurity/sql-injection.htm

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Cracking WEP and WPA Wireless Networks

Comments from digg

Links to articles: [1] [2]

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