Obama site hacked, redirects clicks to Clinton's site

[kpete]

Obama site hacked, redirects clicks to Clinton's site
Cross-site scripting bug fixed, but researchers say others exist
By Gregg Keizer


April 21, 2008 (Computerworld) A cross-site scripting vulnerability in the social networking section of Sen. Barack Obama's campaign site was exploited over the weekend to redirect users to the URL of rival Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), researchers claimed today.

According to the U.K.-based antifraud company Netcraft Ltd., someone identified only as "Mox" confessed to the hack in an entry on the Community Blogs section on the Obama site Sunday. Obama, an Illinois Democrat, leads Clinton in the race for the party's presidential nomination. The site exploit occurred just before this week's big Pennsylvania primary.

"You may also be wondering, how did you get Hillary's site to appear where Obama's should be?" wrote Mox. "The answer to that is, through the magical world of Cross Site Scripting."

more at:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9079339

[FunkyLeprechaun]

1. Here's a good YouTube

Documenting this http://youtube.com/watch?v=NKjomr1Afq0

[cbayer]

2. "Presidential campaigns clueless about Net threats"

This is the most important part of this story:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9077198

"April 12, 2008 (Computerworld) The 2008 presidential campaigns are apparently oblivious to many of the threats that could damage their candidates' reputations and fund-raising abilities, or disclose sensitive insider information, a security researcher said Friday."

[Ian_rd]

4. But not to worry, e-voting is perfectly safe.

Nothing to worry about!

[Ian_rd]

3. Damnit, Ned Lamont!

Stop hacking websites!

[autorank]

5. Hmmm.... n/t k*r

[samsingh]

6. why are democrats doing this to other democrats?

[RareLubbockDem]

8. Desparation. Rules don't matter to Hillarity supporters, remember?

[cynatnite]

9. I wouldn't say it's Dems...

More than likely some idiot hackers with nothing better to do.

[samsingh]

11. i hope that's what it is.

[IndianaGreen]

7. Probably Mox is one of the inbreds in Hillaryis44

asshole!

[jillan]

10. When Biden was still in the race, his site would go to Obama's.

Someone is just messing around.

[blogslut]

12. So the bastard snuck some JavaScript into an IFRAME

Well, I hope to hell they stopped allowing IFRAMES on the Obama community pages. Never should have allowed them in the first place.