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Subject: [ISN] 3 million gov't websites assailed by vicious hidden links
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2010-09-27 7:08:31
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By People's Daily Online
September 26, 2010
Shen Yang, a doctorial tutor at School of Information Management under
Wuhan University, showed reporters on Sept. 22 at his office that there
are some vicious hidden links among some government-run Web sites with
domain names ending in "gov.cn," such as those linking to the "latest
information on the Hong Kong Jockey Club" and "how to buy Mark Six" Web
pages, according to a report by Changjiang Daily.
"These are hidden link attacks," said Shen. "Certain text is invisible
for normal online browsing and they have links to illegal Web pages
containing pornographic, gambling and fraudulent items and political
content."
Some educational websites have also become targets. There is a link to
the "Hong Kong Jockey Club – Predicting thr results of Mark Six" on the
website of one of China's outstanding universities and there is a
"mobile phone bugging device" link on the website of a communication
school of a Chongqing-based university.
According to the data on hidden link attacks on government websites
collected by Shen, more than 10 percent of China's more than 30 million
government websites are under hidden links attacks.
Hackers can willfully change the Web pages at websites just like posting
ads on the walls of other people's living rooms. Some hackers even sell
the rights to access website servers.
"These rights can be priced at only 50 yuan, but hackers can still
generate enormous profits if they sell tens of thousands of such
rights," Shen said.
It is known that much of the domestic security software has not been
able to detect hidden links.
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