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Re: Possible hack? Images replaced on proxy server


From: "andre" <andreq () infolink com br>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 15:47:28 -0300

Probably your proxy is considering ".asp" as a static content. I believe its
squid´s default. You can try to changing this configuration.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Hodges" <dhodges () outermost com>
To: <webappsec () securityfocus com>
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 1:34 PM
Subject: Possible hack? Images replaced on proxy server


I am responsible for several ASP and ASP.Net web sites that are hosted at
an independent ISP. These sites were developed for a corporate client
which
has its own corporate network and firewall, completely separate from the
ISP where these sites are hosted.

The other day, an employee of this corporation was surfing our site from
within the corporate firewall and found one of our images was coming up as
a porn image! Another employee was able to verify this.

Then we found that other images were coming up with no content, or as
horizontal bars of color.

These problems are not occurring outside the corporate firewall;  and the
source images, on the server at the ISP, are fine. Only people behind this
firewall see these bad images.

I suspect someone has hacked the corporate proxy server but I have no way
to know for sure. I am in somewhat of a panic because naturally it does
not
reflect well on my little company to have porn images coming up on sites
we
develop.

I renamed the image in question and changed the IMG tag in the html, which
fixed the problem for the time being. But I am worried about future.

Would a META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache" tag help?

What else can I do to prevent this, and, what can be causing this?

Thanks,
David



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