A couple of pretty interesting Cross Site Scripting (XSS) exploits have been launched as of late on presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s websites. Both exploits are unique in that they were highly publicized and pretty well documented online. It’s probably some good information for developers and hosting companies to take a look at, […]
Obama’s Website Hacked!
A hacker has managed to get into Obama’s website and redirect it to Hillary Clinton’s website. Details are kind of sketchy at this time but here’s a link to an article on netcraft regarding the hack: Hacker Redirects Barack Obama’s site to hillaryclinton.com – Netcraft A user named Mox, from Liverpool, IL, posted an apparent […]
Harvard University Website Hacked
I ran into this article on the WHIR this morning and thought that it was pretty comical. Their website for their Graduate School or the Arts was compromised on Sunday, and don’t get me wrong that parts not funny by any means, but the comedy of this story is how they were hacked. Apparently some […]
Book Review: Maximum Apache Security
About a year or so ago we were working pretty hard with our server admin to harden our servers against potential threats such as remote shell executions, bots, and xss vulnerabilities. It was a frustrating time for me because there were a lot of elements that I couldn’t get my mind around, fortunately our server […]
FBI Investigates Ticket Site “Attack”
Ran across this article on WHIR this morning and thought that it was pretty interesting. Apparently a website operated by The Colorado Rockies that handles ticketing for their games had some issues staying online while a lot of people were trying to get tickets to the world series games, here is a Link to Web […]