Trend Micro Hit by Massive Web Hack

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Getting hacked is embarrassing for any website. Getting hacked when you sell security software has to be humiliating. :eek:

A Trend Micro spokesman confirmed that the company's site had been hacked Thursday, saying that the attack took place earlier in the week. "A portion of our site -- some pages were attacked," said Mike Sweeny, a Trend Micro spokesman. "We took the pages down overnight Tuesday night -- and took corrective action."
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Why would you make a public statement about this? Why not keep it a company secret?
 
Crap, i hope the version of HiJack This I got off their site eariler this week was the real thing. :(
 
well someone might as well say it

PWNED!

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Nobody is totally safe, but it does make you wonder a little bit since it is a security company. You never hear about MS, Google, or other large companies who are likely targets getting hacked.
 
Exavior said:
Crap, i hope the version of HiJack This I got off their site eariler this week was the real thing. :(
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Oh I'm sure you were HiJacked. I mean.. I'm sure you got the right version of HiJacked ;)
 
MeTaSpARKs said:
Why would you make a public statement about this? Why not keep it a company secret?
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So that if some people's computer suddenly acted up since they installed a software downloaded from those dates, it wouldn't remain a mystery. They'd know and also take corrective action.

It's better for Trend Micro to be up front about it then have a customer report them to a watchdog site (like us), and have us rip them a new one.

Props to Trend Micro for cutting to the chase.
 
I think it's a good humbling experience for them. They can only improve from here.
 
Yea they better have said something. Their online virus scan, House Call, is used by many of us Techs that work in the hospital I work in. I just used this website yesterday.

The article fails at reporting the time/date when it all happened. I used the website yesterday which is thursday. I read the article when the post time was "2hrs ago". They mentioned that it happened on thursday but then a patch/fix was installed on the following tuesday. The article doesn't mention any dates. So I would have to assume they meant last thursday.

Oh well, I won't be using this website for awhile. Any thoughts on the correllation of all the affected pages being .asp powered?
 
MeTaSpARKs said:
Why would you make a public statement about this? Why not keep it a company secret?
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Sometimes hackers will leak this information, which can be even more devastating to a company like this as the public will think it's hiding everything... right now they are probably going to make some announcement and blame it on something other than their own faults.
 
Azhar said:
Oh I'm sure you were HiJacked. I mean.. I'm sure you got the right version of HiJacked ;)
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i was ganna say the same thing lol i think the only reason why the web site got hit was because someone wanted to show how vulnerable they were to attack.
 
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