This Is Serious

“Super Bowl site hacked, seeded with exploits” The link is to an article at Zdnet.

The official Web site of Dolphin Stadium, home of Sunday’s Super Bowl XLI, has been hacked and seeded with exploit code targeting two known Windows security flaws.

Full access to your computer, via keystroke logger (spyware) backdoor Trojan (you click on what you think is an interactive functionality, like a game, or external link, or forum comment posting, or advertisement), if unpatched Windows system.

Uber horrible news for ecommerce hopes.

[ZDNET — Updated #2: February 2, 2007 @ 5:13 pm] All the affected Miami Dolphins sites (see Alexa traffic data) have now been disinfected but there is evidence that hundreds of other sites have been hijacked and rigged with the malicious JavaScript code.

Thanks to Vaspers the Grate read more in his post “botnet farming at Super Bowl site.”

PLEASE BE SURE YOUR WINDOWS MACHINE IS FULLY PATCHED.

–ME ‘Liz” Strauss