[ga] CheckFree to Notify 6 Million Potentially Affected by DNS Attack

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Again as an FYI, see:

(January 6, 2008)
CheckFree has begun notifying more than 5 million people that they may
have been redirected to a site hosting malware if they used CheckFree's
services between 12:35 am and 10:10 am on December 2, 2008.  CheckFree
is an electronic bill paying service that is used by some banks.  In
some cases, people would not know they were using CheckFree; it would
seem to them as though they were using a service provided by their own
banks.  People who used the service during that period were redirected
to a server in the Ukraine that attempted to install password-stealing
malware on their computers.  The attackers managed to log into Network
Solutions, CheckFree's Internet domain registrar, and change the DNS
settings to conduct the redirect attack.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9125078

My note:  Be safe and change your passwords immediately and contact
your bank or financial institution to see if they use CheckFree's
service
or have ever done so in the past year.  Don't trust that your bank or
financial institution will contact you.  I hope that Network solutions
is on top of this???

Regards,

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