Zone-H Defaced
cybernmd posted in Uncategorized on December 22nd, 2006
Zone-H, a host of the largest website defacement archive, got defaced yesterday, December 21st. The break-in itself is an example of a multi-stage attack utilizing attack vectors ranging from social engineering and XSS vulnerability in Hotmail to remote file-inclusion flaw in Zone-H’s content management system. The end result is this:
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Important lessons should be learned from this hack, one is that human factor still is the weakest link in the security chain as well as an existence of a promising ground for research (abuse) in Javascript, AJAX, and the like technologies.
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