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Tuesday, July 03, 2007

what's happening to security blogs on blogger.com?

over the weekend i received an email (thanks again, luke) alerting me to the fact that the blog for superantispyware (a well known and respected anti-spyware application) had been compromised and was serving up malware... on checking my stats i saw that there were a few clicks on that link in my blogroll over the course of the past month so i was concerned and tried to get details from nick skrepetos, but while waiting for a response i find out via the sunbelt blog that a virtually identical fate has befallen another security related blogger.com blog...

is it just those two? are there more? is it just security blogs being compromised or is it just blogger.com blogs in general that are falling victim to the malware profiteers? it seems an unlikely coincidence that 2 security blogs on blogger.com would be found compromised and serving malware around the same time due to unrelated causes... as a blogger.com user myself and a security blogger, i'd really be interested in further details on how the compromise happened - as i'm sure quite a number of other security bloggers who use blogger.com are...

at any rate, if you've visited either of the 2 blogs in question recently, you might want to give your system a thorough inspection - just to be safe...