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Submission + - CNN.COM Hacked (digitalgangster.com)

Oldstench writes: It looks like a soon-to-be Federal prison inmate was able to gain access to the CNN control panel last night through an XSS exploit.

http://digitalgangster.com/4um/showthread.php?t=90684

How It Was Done
An XSS was found on their website:
http://search.cnn.com/search?query=c...Cscript%20src=
Which was used with a .js file and then sent to a cnn employee to download which then infected their network.
Tools: Snap (Uses Secure ID)
Server: Isilon

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