Hi Everyone, You may not have noticed, but something went bump in the night on the IxDA web site this week. After investigating an issue someone reported with our RSS feeds, we found that someone had inserted some malicious code onto our site. The code quietly directed visitors' browsers in the background to a site that attempts to install malicious software on visitors' computers. All is well now, but in interests of transparency, we wanted to send this note along
*What Happened?* The vulnerability that allowed the breach to occur only allowed access to our mail archives and everything already public. Other information that we maintain, such as conference registration information, remained secure. It bears repeating that this vulnerability *only affected the web site*. For example, people reading just the e-mail version of our list have less to worry about. We have since removed all traces of the offending code from the site and fixed the vulnerability that allowed the breach to occur in the first place. What to Do About This To be safe, if you have visited ixda.org over the past two weeks, please use a tool to scan your computer for malicious software and remove it. PC users can use SpyBot Search and Destroy ( http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html), and Mac users can use Mac Scan (http://macscan.securemac.com/), both free tools. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. No, really, we know you have enough to do without having to worry about whether you may have gotten malware on your machine from an otherwise unassuming site. On an ongoing basis, we will monitor our systems more closely for suspicious activity, and we will fix security vulnerabilities as they are discovered in the computer security community. Special thanks to Jeff Howard for raising the initial alarm and for helping us address this breach in a timely manner. Please fee free to get in touch with me at this address if you need more infomation. Thanks, Nasir Barday Interaction Design Association ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
