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RE: Lieberman Campaign Says Web Site Hacked
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:14:08 -0400
SQL Injection to a MySQL database? Hmm, was any donor information stolen? I wrote about security issues at political Web sites back in 2004: http://www.computerbytesman.com/security/bush-v-kerry.htm Richard -----Original Message----- From: Dude VanWinkle [mailto:dudevanwinkle () gmail com] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 5:10 PM To: Drsolly Cc: Richard M. Smith; funsec () linuxbox org Subject: Re: [funsec] Lieberman Campaign Says Web Site Hacked On 8/8/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
"Voters cannot go to our Web site. They cannot access information,"
Smith
said. "It is a deliberate attempt to disenfranchise voters.I feel *so* disenfranchised.
this link was over on FD: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/8/8/144119/5628 Quick Update/Summary: The site is setup on a single vulnerable server, with, apparently, no backup plan. At best, completely incompetent. At worst, downright Rovian. But since another site is running fine, on the same server, it's downright bizarre that they couldn't fix Joe's site in the last 18+ hours - it's obviously not a bandwidth (DoS or limitation) issue. It appears the party line is that the site was affected by a "SQL Injection" attack. Whether this was done via the open and non-firewalled MySQL port on the single linux server, or via poor form validation, we'll never know (if it was done at all). Regardless, there is no reason the database can't be cleaned up, restored or otherwise fixed, in 18 hours, as Matt Stoller points out. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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