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Author Topic: Vuln. Alert: BusinessWeek SQL Injection  (Read 2726 times)

Ehtyar

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Vuln. Alert: BusinessWeek SQL Injection
« on: September 17, 2008, 03:43 AM »
The BusinessWeek magazine's website has suffered an attack on an SQL injection vulnerability in its pages causing it to serve up malware.

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The Web site of BusinessWeek magazine suffered a major SQL injection attack in recent days that left it hosting malware on hundreds of its pages, security vendor Sophos PLC has reported.

Once compromised by such a server hole, the attack scripts could, in principle, launch anything desired by the attacker except currently included code for automatic attacks based on JavaScript. That means a visitor could be hit by malware just by landing on one of the pages, without even interacting in any way.

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