From the article: "In recent weeks, hackers have breached Web
sites belonging to several foreign policy and human rights groups, including
Amnesty International and the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, a
nonprofit organization based in Israel that researches terrorism issues.
Hackers infiltrated the sites using two well-known security vulnerabilities,
one in Adobe Flash and another in Java software, according to a blog post by security
researchers at the Shadowserver Foundation, a nonprofit group
that tracks cyber threats….In each case, infected sites can drop malware onto
visitors’ computers, which opens a back door between the attackers’ command
center and the victims’ computers. Once computers are infected, the attackers
can move from infected computers into other computers in the victims’ networks,
or organizations." Read more
