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August 2nd, 2007 | 
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Hi friends,
Here is an update to the hack attack on SurvivalRing yesterday, as mentioned in the email below.
This hack attack seems to have darker overtones than I originally suspected.
While I believe the hack was as I stated yesterday ( a web bot spamming program, which gained access to the site via php script vulnerabilities), I’ve done a bit more research on the destination website that all the spam links were pointing to.
Every one of the nearly fifty hidden links point to a hacked website hosted in the middle east…
hxxp://qasweb.org/library/universe/online/?page=49 (link disabled on purpose)
A quick search found an arabic language based website is the home of
This is the Qatif Astronomical Society forum website…in Arabic.
You can view a mostly translated into english version here (google cache file)
Following the path of the hacked files, we see this…
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