I guess that anyone with an online presence in the form of a website or web page is fair target of hackers, although your blog would be left mostly untouched if all you did with it was to show off pictures of your lunch, your pet cat lazing around the home, as well as selfies. If you were a high profile person who somehow divides opinion right down the middle, then the chances of someone defacing or hacking into your website is a whole lot higher, as the Dalai Lama found out recently with his Chinese site hacked. Apparently, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) of His Holiness the Dalai Lama site will come with an embedded iframe which will redirect Chinese visitors to a Java exploit, where said exploit will open up a backdoor payload, according to Kaskpersky Lab’s Kurt Baumgartner.
This is better known as a watering hole attack, where it is normally used by hackers to work their way into a site which has an extremely high probability level to be visited by a select group of users. While the site remains legitimate to most security software, visiting the compromised website could result in malicious content being installed on your machine which will then allow hackers safe passage to your personal information. It would be best to avoid this particular site at the moment to prevent any unwanted data theft.
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