Post by Lee Hedges on Jun 10, 2013 11:40:33 GMT -8
I was informed last week that there were secutiry warnings when opening the T34 World web site, the PureT34 web site, and on my personal (LeeHedges.com) site.
Today I diagnosed the problem with the help of my web services guy. He discovered that on 01 June 2013 forty files were randomly injected with a Trojan link that redirected the page to an unsafe location. He discovered that my personal log-in information was not compromised (thank goodness) but that a hacker got into the server company and randomly edited 40 files from many clients.
Today I identified the edited files and replaced them with clean files. I also changed my server log-in settings.
If you experienced a problem with error messages, blocked web sites, or other such security measures, I hope that now things will return to normal and the T34 World, PureT34, and LeeHedges sites will all be functioning again without errors.
For those of you interested in the details of the problem:
Hidden iframes were added to 40 HTML documents. An iframe is a section of a web page that loads content from another page or site. Attackers will often inject malicious iframes into a web page or other file on your server. Often, these iframes will be configured so they don't show up on the web page when someone visits the page, but the malicious content they are loading will still load, hidden from the visitor's view.
Today I diagnosed the problem with the help of my web services guy. He discovered that on 01 June 2013 forty files were randomly injected with a Trojan link that redirected the page to an unsafe location. He discovered that my personal log-in information was not compromised (thank goodness) but that a hacker got into the server company and randomly edited 40 files from many clients.
Today I identified the edited files and replaced them with clean files. I also changed my server log-in settings.
If you experienced a problem with error messages, blocked web sites, or other such security measures, I hope that now things will return to normal and the T34 World, PureT34, and LeeHedges sites will all be functioning again without errors.
For those of you interested in the details of the problem:
Hidden iframes were added to 40 HTML documents. An iframe is a section of a web page that loads content from another page or site. Attackers will often inject malicious iframes into a web page or other file on your server. Often, these iframes will be configured so they don't show up on the web page when someone visits the page, but the malicious content they are loading will still load, hidden from the visitor's view.