Security should be on everyone's agenda...watch for the EBay and Pay Pal email phishing as well...BD
San Francisco (IDGNS) - The U.S. federal government took steps earlier this week to shut down Web sites in California in order to protect the public from hacked Web sites, but new incidents show that the problem is not going away any time soon. "Also, in these days of heightened security concerns from hackers, it is important to quickly stop potentially harmful damage to federal, state, and local Web sites from those who have no love for our country."
The security of U.S. government Web sites has been front-page news in California this week after the U.S. General Services Administration, which administers the .gov top-level domain, temporarily removed California's state servers from the Internet's DNS infrastructure, apparently because of a security problem on the Web site of a small state agency, the Transportation Authority of Marin.
On Thursday, compromised pages hosted by the Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Superior Court of Madera County, California, were still hosting inappropriate content. Brookhaven had links that redirected visitors to pornographic Web servers, and the Madera County court site featured ads for porn and Viagra.
For example, the Madera Superior Court site has a "Click Here To E-mail Our Webmaster" link on the bottom of its front page, but when Trend Micro Network Architect Paul Ferguson used it to inform the court that its site had been hacked, his e-mail bounced back as undeliverable. Madera Superior Court representatives did not return a call seeking comment.
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