Barack Obama site hacked
p2pnet news | Security:- Hackers recently used a cross-site scripting flaw to get into Barack Obama’s website, changing the code so visitors were redirected to Hillary Clinton’s, says Netcraft.
Then, “A user named Mox, from Liverpool, IL, posted an apparent confession in the Community Blogs section on the Barack Obama website,” says the story, going:
“Mox plays down the matter by saying that all he did was exploit some poorly written HTML code before suggesting that it was a cross-site scripting vulnerability that had been exploited.
“By allowing users to enter characters such as > and ” into their blog URLs, JavaScript could be injected into pages in the Community Blogs section and would be executed by subsequent visitors.”
A YouTube clip from zennie62 demonstrates the attack, says Netcraft.
He clicks on ‘Community Blogs,’ launching the browser to hillaryclinton.com.
“The author speculates that ‘Senator Clinton’s staffers possibly hired someone to hack into the Barack Obama website system’,” says the story, adding:
“No evidence is offered to back up this statement.”
The Mox ‘confession’ had been deleted from the Obama site when we went for a look at 10:03 am Pacific.
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Netcraft – Hacker Redirects Barack Obama’s site to hillaryclinton.com, April 21, 2008
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April 24th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
haha what an Obamanation.
Okay, I was just waiting for an excuse to use that, I admit it.
April 25th, 2008 at 6:34 am
This is why I hate politics and don’t support a party.
Nothing but a bunch of children bickering amongst themselves.
And actually, this could work in favour of Obama – who wants a president who will do petty but really sneaky things like this to win power?
April 25th, 2008 at 10:24 am
ya clinton would hire a hacker thats about as retarded as the person that hacked the site is.
ya dont hack democrats that might just lead your country to a better life