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Department of Homeland Security Website Hacked

Dan Goodin writes on The Register:

The sophisticated mass infection that's injecting attack code into hundreds of thousands of reputable web pages is growing and even infiltrated the website of the Department of Homeland Security.

While so-called SQL injections are nothing new, this latest attack, which we we reported earlier, is notable for its ability to infect huge numbers of pages using only a single string of text. At time of writing, Google searches... showed almost 520,000 pages containing the infection string, though the exact number changes almost constantly. As the screenshot [above] shows, even the DHS, which is responsible for protecting US infrastructure against cyber attacks, wasn't immune. Other hacked sites include those belonging to the United Nations and the UK Civil Service.

posted by Fergie @ 4/25/2008 03:38:00 PM