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Dirty Tricksters Plant a Virus on BO.com

I actually find this kind of amusing, since it was a benign attack. I didn't try to log into Obama's blog site today, but apparently a trickster managed to post some code that was redirecting visitors over to HRC's site.  As noted in the article I linked, the HRC site has an identical vulnerability that was exploited here, so before folks start pointing fingers at the Clinton campaign, consider how silly it would be to intentionally exploit a flaw that you leave open for exploitation on your own site.  Glad to see nothing truly nefarious ensued.


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Ah, they should have redirected the HRC site to the Obama site. Would have been a fun perpetual redirect loop.

Ha! That would have been more fun, for sure!

dont give the hackers any ideas now...

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