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Redmond Magazine Successfully SQL Injected by Chinese Hacktivists

Posted by tracyanne on · 4 comments
ZDNet; By Dancho Danchev 		Mail this story
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Irony at its best. It appears that Redmond - The Independent Voice of the Microsoft IT Community, formerly known as Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine is currently flagged as a badware site, and third-party exploit detection tools are also detecting internal pages as exploit hosting ones, in this particular case Mal/Badsrc-A. What is Mal/Badsrc-A? Mal/Badsrc-A is a malicious web page also known as HTML.XORER, that has been compromised to load a script from a malicious website.

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Comments (4)

azerthoth ·
I especially liked the part about where the MS guy blamed ActiveX ... isnt that MS too? Yup. So basically he admitted that MS is still at fault for the security holes.
tracyanne Story submitter ·
I especially liked it in light of this preceeding posting http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/103149/index.html#threa...
tracyanne Story submitter ·
I pointed out the irony of this "Microsoft blames users" Microsoft's Servers Pwned" to my new collegue, he couldn't see the irony, instead he launced into a long defense of Microsoft.

Ah Microsofties, they do provide entertainment on a dull day.

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