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AP: Hack into Obama campaign site exploited a coding flaw
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:51:58 -0700
________________________________________ From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall [joehall () gmail com] Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:46 AM To: David Farber Subject: Clinton Hackers? AP: Hack into Obama campaign site exploited a coding flaw http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042302976.html By JORDAN ROBERTSON The Associated Press Wednesday, April 23, 2008; 6:53 PM SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A simple flaw in the coding of Sen. Barack Obama's Web site led to a hacking switcheroo of presidential proportions just days before the important Pennsylvania primary. Some supporters who tried to visit the community blogs section of Obama's site started noticing late last week they were being redirected to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's official campaign site. Security researchers said a hacker exploited a so-called "cross-site scripting" vulnerability in Obama's Web site to engineer the ruse. Netcraft Ltd. said the hacker injected code into certain pages in the section _ code that was then executed when subsequent visitors tried to view the community blogs section. The vulnerability has since been fixed. ... -- Joseph Lorenzo Hall UC Berkeley School of Information http://josephhall.org/ ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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