On the first of August the Xavier Media blog mention a hack of a Swedish online bookstore that caused the web site to distribute malware.

Since most of us are extremly dependent on our web sites it’s important to check out your own web site to make sure it’s not scarying your visitors away. This is when the tips mentioned in Keep an eye on your site comes in handy for any web site or blog owner:

1. Make sure you always update your blog software and other scripts you got on your site to the latest version when a new security fix is released.
2. Secure your own PHP code so you’re not going to end up as a victim for SQL injections.
3. Test your site at Google’s Safebrowsing site to see if they’ve found something suspicious: http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?client=Firefox&hl=en-EN&site=http://www.sampleaddress.com/
   Replace www.sampleaddress.com with your own site.
4. Check your site at for example McAfees SiteAdvisor.com every now and then

You should also check your static HTML pages (or any other page including HTML code) for javascript codes you haven’t added yourself because today I found this piece of code in one of my customers pages:

<!– o –><script language=’JavaScript’>
Some weird characters here
</script><!– c –>

Popularity: 7% [?]

In the beginning of this year antivirus and security company McAfee acquired Scanalert, a company that certify if a site is safe from hacking or not. Now one of the anti-fraud researchers at Scanalert is himself suspected for fraud

The researcher is facing fraud charges in Indiana, not only once but 11 times for security fraud!!! The fraudulent transactions is said to have resulted in about $1.2 million in profit for the researcher and his brother.

The Scanalert service Hacker Safe (or McAfee safe as it’s now renamed to) prove to potential customers that web sites they’re visiting have been tested for vulnerabilities and are unlikely to have been hacked by online fraudsters. Now the question is how accurate is the actual testing?

McAfee has so far not published anything about these frauds that we’ve found out

Popularity: 11% [?]