Titus Germanicus writes "Attacks on legitimate Web domains, have expanded dramatically, with hundreds of with hundreds of thousands of pages hacked. One anti-virus vendor said the sites might have been compromised through a "security issue" in Microsoft's Web server software that has been reported to Microsoft's engineers.
Earlier in the week, Dan Hubbard, Websense's vice president of security research, estimated the number of hacked sites in the low six figures. By today, that number had soared as firms such as Panda Security pegged the number at 282,000, and F-Secure said its infected-page count was above half a million.
Ryan Sherstobitoff, a corporate evangelist for Panda, said his company had reported a problem with Internet Information Services (ISS) to Microsoft that was probably responsible for the hacks. "We reported a security issue, but I don't have any specific details on whether it's a vulnerability," Sherstobitoff said." Link to Original Source
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