Hacking iTunes Gift Cards, and an iTunes Update

"Recently, several media outlets have been running a fascinating story about hackers making oodles of money selling iTunes gift cards activation codes at online auctions, supposedly after cracking the secret algorithm Apple uses to generate voucher codes for iTunes gift cards.
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Thousands of Websites Hacked

Security vendor Kaspersky Labs warns that ""We’re estimating that in the last two days alone, between 2,000 and 10,000 servers, mainly Western European and American ones, have been hacked," Kaspersky wrote on its Web site Friday, "It’s not yet clear who’s doing this."
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Malware Alert: Antivir64 Rogue Antispyware

Antivir64, a new rogue antispyware is on the prowl, it seems to be installing from scanner.antivir64.com with an affiliate id 1050 (scanner.antivir64.com/?aff=xxxx). The victims are redirected -probably through .htaccess file hack- from certain pages of legitimate but hacked websites. A quick google search shows first reports of blog sites getting hacked to redirect visitors to entice them to install antivir64 a variant of antispyware2008. I came across this malware accidentally when I happened to visit a page in connectedinternet.co.uk earlier today. My Firefox 3 hung in Windows Vista and I was forced to terminate it in not so graceful manner.
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Hacking: iGoogle gadgets a security risk, say hackers

"HACKERS turned computer security specialists have accused Google of setting users up for online disasters by letting them personalise their home pages with applications that could be tainted. Software that people can be tricked into installing on iGoogle homepages can track their activities and even be used to control their computer, SecTheory chief executive Robert Hansen said today.
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Hacking: Hackers recently Used Facebook for Malware Attack

"Hackers, impersonating members’ friends, attacked Facebook by convincing users on Facebook’s Wall to view a video link that they said was hosted by Google. The Wall is a place were members post messages for friends.
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Hacking: Ongoing IFrame attack proving difficult to kill

"One of the factors that make an ongoing malware attack so difficult to stop is the speed with which the assault can evolve. Over the past 12 days, an IFrame injection attack that originally focused on ZDNet Asia has been spreading across the ‘Net, changing targets and payloads on an almost daily basis. An iFrame (short for inline frame) is an element of HTML that’s used to embed HTML from another source into a webpage. The timeline of the attack is provided below, thanks in no small part to security consultant Dancho Danchev, who has kept a play-by-play account of the IFrame attack on his blog.
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Hacking: Second mass hack exposed

"Researchers at McAfee estimated that the attack has been active for roughly one week, and in that time frame has managed to place itself on roughly 200,000 web pages.
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Hacking: Trend Micro Details Its Recent Failed Web Attack

"The code inserted in some Web pages of the site was meant to redirect the visitor to a malicious server that would download malware capable of stealing passwords on an infected computer, Trend Micro spokesman Michael Sweeny said. The attempt, however, failed.
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Hacking: Cyber-attack launched from 10,000 web pages

"The web pages have been modified to silently redirect visitors to sites laden with malware that attempt to break into the user’s PC. McAfee Avert Labs described the assault as "one of the largest attacks to date of this kind".
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Trend Micro website infected users with Trojan

"Antivirus vendor Trend Micro Inc. confirmed Thursday that "some portions" of its site had been hacked earlier this week, but hedged when asked if those pages had been serving up attack code to unsuspecting visitors.
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