Again short downtime for the avast webforum..

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Hi malware fighters,

Could not go for some time to avast webforum or 75.125.29.226. Network monitor showed attached to a999sm.avast.com. Took ages to get the search cache page from Google.
This all happened to-day 2008-03-24 around 18.45 CET. What happened, anyone?

polonus

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I couldn’t connect for a while around that time, though I didn’t do any network checking.

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I couldn't connect for a while around that time
same here davidr and damian ::) ???
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I’m glad that I was out most of the day. :slight_smile:

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Why is this happening so frequently? :‘( :’(

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Frequently is few times a day. Not few times a year.

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Well kubecj,

Time is on your side (or should it be site?), Brazilian defacers found something else to do (cybercrime mainly). Now we are being troubled by some Turkish web-defacers (last week’s incident), but you have statistics running in your favor, because with lack of Media-attention, web-defacement is diminishing, read here:
http://www.zone-h.org/content/view/14940/31/
Worse is that in their latest installment, WhiteHat finds nine out of 10 websites still have serious vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit; and that there is an average of seven vulnerabilities per website. The top 10 list has remained somewhat static over the past several months withCross-Site Scripting (XSS) as the top vulnerability class, appearing in approximately 70 percent of websites. However, CSRF, while known in the public domain for years, has recently garnered more attention from malicious hackers. Attackers using CSRF can easily force a user’s Web browser to send unintended HTTP requests such as fraudulent wire transfers, change passwords and download illegal content. Effective automated CSRF detection techniques have eluded all technology scanning vendors in the space, making identification a largely manual process. WhiteHat predicts that its ongoing research over time will place CSRF in the number two spot right behind XSS in future reports. WhiteHat Sentinel’s unique combination of advanced scanning technology and expert analysis enabled the discovery of this dangerous issue.

See picture attached,

pol