Overnight, the website for Cooks Illustrated was hit by a "code-injection" attack which could attempt to steal your password or even plant a virus/trojan on your computer, especially if you use Internet Explorer.
Last night and this morning, I was browsing the site to see if I could add their index information to the magazine recipe index on my site. Last night, all looked well, and it appeared I would, indeed, be able to use that information.
This morning, however, the site was filled with "broken-image" icons where the image tags had been changed to include browser script code. Even before I noticed that point, however, I thought I had just been encountering one of those problems that some websites have with Firefox, so I tried Internet Explorer. When I tried to do an "Advanced Search," IE warned me that it was trying to run some kind of "Microsoft database" software on MY machine! I rejected that, and closed IE, but before it had completely closed, my anti-virus software warned about three threats in the IE temporary files. Of course, I got rid of those files.
Right now, their office just opened up, and I'm going to call them about this. I would recommend staying away from the CI website, at least for today - maybe for tomorrow, as well, until they can remove the problematic material.
Last night and this morning, I was browsing the site to see if I could add their index information to the magazine recipe index on my site. Last night, all looked well, and it appeared I would, indeed, be able to use that information.
This morning, however, the site was filled with "broken-image" icons where the image tags had been changed to include browser script code. Even before I noticed that point, however, I thought I had just been encountering one of those problems that some websites have with Firefox, so I tried Internet Explorer. When I tried to do an "Advanced Search," IE warned me that it was trying to run some kind of "Microsoft database" software on MY machine! I rejected that, and closed IE, but before it had completely closed, my anti-virus software warned about three threats in the IE temporary files. Of course, I got rid of those files.
Right now, their office just opened up, and I'm going to call them about this. I would recommend staying away from the CI website, at least for today - maybe for tomorrow, as well, until they can remove the problematic material.
If blueberry muffins have blueberries in them, what do vegan muffins have?