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Harvard Joomla Website Hacked

Submitted by Bryan on February 19, 2008 - 4:05am

A couple articles regarding a Joomla site for Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Science being hacked. The twist in this is that the database was made available via BitTorrent. Luckily, for Joomla! users, early reports indicate the hack was due to weak password usage and not an actual exploit in the Joomla! software.

 

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ComputerWorld: ASUStek hacked site served up attack code

Submitted by Bryan on April 9, 2007 - 2:41am
"The exploit is hidden in an HTML element on the front page of ASUStek's Taiwanese Web site , which then attempts to download the code from another server, according to Roger Thompson, chief technology officer with Exploit Prevention Labs Inc.

As of Friday afternoon, the server that downloaded the attack code was not operational, mitigating the risk of this attack, although attackers could easily redirect their attacks to a live server, he said"

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Security Alert: Intentional security exploit hacked into Wordpress 2.1.1

Submitted by Bryan on March 2, 2007 - 9:32pm
Directly from Matt Mullenweg's post at Wordpress.org:

Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.

Longer explanation: This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code in WordPress. The issue was investigated, and it appeared that the 2.1.1 download had been modified from its original code. We took the website down immediately to investigate what happened.

The complete post providing detailed information is available at Wordpress.org.


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Plone: Current web site slowness

Submitted by Bryan on September 6, 2006 - 10:30am

"The plone.org web site is currently being hit with multiple spam requests from various sources (on the level of a DDoS attack), and we're currently cleaning up the mischief. If the site is slow for you, we apologize."

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