I don't know if any of you peeps visit any of their sites (their network includes lots of wow stuff, like MMO Champion, Wowstead, Wowpedia and others), but also an addon service for several MMOs, forums and the main news aggregation site, Curse.com itself.
If you hit any of those places today you'll be greeted by a notice claiming a serious hardware failure has occurred. Apparantly they're also spreading that impression on Facebook, but since I boycott that place (for reasons obvious to anyone following the actions of that company) I can't tell for sure if that's true or not.
Anyway, it would seem that is not true. THIS hom paeg claims the shutdown is actually due to an intrusion into their user database and the uploading of a malicious flash exploit/payload dropper directly to the curse.com ad network, possibly including the Curse Client addon manager, meaning anyone who either hit any of the sites or uses their addon manager might have spyware with unknown capabilities installed on their systems right now. Expect the usual keylogging stuff, but other types of datamining isn't out of the question, a zombiefying backdoor to a botnet is also likely these days and so on.
Security consciousness is becoming more important than ever, for everyone. Not just users, but anyone running even a somewhat popular website needs to start worrying about it lest they'll be turned into a malware distribution central for a criminal bunch of hackers. This is getting serious in a big way...
If you hit any of those places today you'll be greeted by a notice claiming a serious hardware failure has occurred. Apparantly they're also spreading that impression on Facebook, but since I boycott that place (for reasons obvious to anyone following the actions of that company) I can't tell for sure if that's true or not.
Anyway, it would seem that is not true. THIS hom paeg claims the shutdown is actually due to an intrusion into their user database and the uploading of a malicious flash exploit/payload dropper directly to the curse.com ad network, possibly including the Curse Client addon manager, meaning anyone who either hit any of the sites or uses their addon manager might have spyware with unknown capabilities installed on their systems right now. Expect the usual keylogging stuff, but other types of datamining isn't out of the question, a zombiefying backdoor to a botnet is also likely these days and so on.
Security consciousness is becoming more important than ever, for everyone. Not just users, but anyone running even a somewhat popular website needs to start worrying about it lest they'll be turned into a malware distribution central for a criminal bunch of hackers. This is getting serious in a big way...
