29 Jul 2013

NASDAQ discussion community website hacked

On July 16th, 2013, the NASDAQ community discussions website was down.  Users were sent an email “we regret that some of your account information – username, email address and password – may have been affected.”  The email does not mention secure encryption of passwords which suggests it may have been an increasingly common “waterhole” attack.  A waterhole attack utilizes the knowledge of the website such as your operating system and applets to inject a custom malware compromise into your frequently visited environment.

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