[hpsdr] Insertion attack on hamsdr.com

Dale Boresz dmb at lightstream.net
Sat Jul 12 13:30:29 PDT 2008


Hi Graham,

I haven't had anything here either according to AVG and ZoneAlarm. Also 
haven't heard of any problems from anybody else. I have no idea what the 
script would actually do though (if anything) because I wasn't about to 
put it into a browser url to find out :-)

Dale


Graham KE9H wrote:
> Dale:
>
> Is there something we should look for, or scan for on our machines?
>
> Do you know what the script attempted to download to the computers
> that visited the site?
> I am clean according to both Symantec antivirus and AVG, but there are 
> forms
> of Malware that won't necessarily be spotted by those scanners.
>
> Thanks,
> --- Graham / KE9H
>
> ==
>
> Dale Boresz wrote:
>> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
>>
>> Hi Alberto,
>>
>> It was fixed several times, but unfortunately someone persists in 
>> making insertion attacks on the site.
>>
>> I have shut the site down until I can determine the source of the 
>> attack, and then a way to prevent future attacks.
>>
>> 73, Dale
>> WA8SRA
>>
>>
>> Alberto I2PHD wrote:
>>> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
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>>>  
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>>>
>>>
>>> Don Jackson AE5K wrote:
>>>> I'd also like to mention that our "announce only" list has grown to 
>>>> 209 members.  There are some duplications between lists, but you 
>>>> can see we now have about 1,000 interested people in the HPSDR 
>>>> project.  (The announce only list is very low volume -- a monthly 
>>>> "ping" and an occasional announcement like the one the other day 
>>>> about expressing interest in Mercury and Alex via the 
>>>> www.hamsdr.com website.
>>> Hmmm, I stll continue to receive this wonderful warning when trying 
>>> to access the www.hamsdr.com
>>> website. Wasn't it supposed to have been fixed ?
>>>
>>> 73  Alberto  I2PHD
>>>
>
>
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