Obama Campaign Site Hacked

Apr 23 2008

Apparently a cross-site scripting bug in the community blogs section of Senator Obama’s website was exploited by a hacker, redirecting visitors to Senator Clinton’s website instead. Cross-site scripting is old and lame, but as we know there are a lot of vulnerable sites still out there. This is boring news, I was just looking for an excuse to post this picture:

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Posted by Jim.Reavis on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008, at 5:14 pm, and filed under Articles.

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