Comments on: Hundreds of UK Government, School & University Websites Hacked

By: mercedes

mercedes — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:31:28 +0000

this is why all opensource website software shouldn’t include a slug to the version no or what software its running on. if its great people will come anyway no reason to advertise

By: rob

rob — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:11:39 +0000

Noticed this a couple of years ago – interesting to see it’s still a problem. Generally seems to occur when gov’t/school sites use open source or collaborative software such as Plogger, but then never update it, so hackers can use security vulnerabilities to inject their links. Seems like the public sector needs some serious education about online security and the pitfalls of not keeping their software up-to-date.

Another good search to expose this kind of stuff: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Asch.uk+levitra

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Heatmap of a Digg front page – Diggers blindly click on anything — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:57:29 +0000

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By: Public sector web sites at risk from illicit links | Dominic Fallows

Public sector web sites at risk from illicit links | Dominic Fallows — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:26:33 +0000

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By: Pradesh Rabar

Pradesh Rabar — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:25:48 +0000

I’d go a step further and say that virtually no commercial sites vet user input properly, hence so many SQL injection attacks, cross-site scripting and also just general profanity-laden vandalism of comments boards…

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:57:11 +0000

Horrible..

none of the govt sites are conscious about security.

By: Ritchie

Ritchie — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:03:34 +0000

Indeed Brevan, we encourage visitors to leave comments on our articles but each one is individually moderated by a human being before going live on our website. The reason for us publishing this article was to raise awareness for this type of hacking which has remained undetected for too long, I am sure the list of sites we have documented is not even scratching the surface of the total number of organisations affected.

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By: [Website] Govt, uni and school websites insecure

[Website] Govt, uni and school websites insecure — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:10:50 +0000

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