A group of Romanian hackers had sent a warning email to Kaspersky that an imminent attack is about to happen, and it in fact did just that, 1 hour after sending the email. The attack was a SQL injection into the company's database, but was unable to extract any real data, because the hackers were not advanced enough to.An obviously embarrassed Kaspersky, an anti-virus and Internet security software developer, was ashamed that their web site was breached. The attack made an SQL injection on the newly launched US web site, which could ruin the company's reputation in the market of Internet security. Hackers using the SQL injection could have deleted or displayed data from the database by injecting unauthorized characters into the database.
Kaspersky has said if the hackers were more advanced, they could have stolen more than 2,500 email address with activation codes to their new products. Kaspersky is still unclear what the motives behind the attack were, and is investigating the matter.
even more so because SQL injections are inexcusable and very easy to avoid
why not get a cisco IPS device and stop the sql attack attempts in its tracks..?
NOD32 FTW.
An Antivirus company that gets its networks infected by a virus that is ...
For the motive you ask?
Why overreact like this? I mean, nowadays it is safe to say that no one is 100% secured against any kind of attacks.
I do agree that SQL injection attacks are avoidable.
Remember: There's no such thing as perfect security.
Cool people having complete control over their cool MySQL queries they write in their Emacs.
So cool.
Cool people having complete control over their cool MySQL queries they write in their Emacs.
So cool.
wtf are you on?
it's good to see someone keeping them on their toes. nothing beats a humbled and humiliated anti-virus developer.
looks how much good it did to symantec ...
btw, this won't stop me from renewing my kaspersky licence next month when mine expired.
preaky app ... besides resource HOG.
NOD32 is the way !
kaspersky is resource hog, so I switched into NAV09.
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