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Finding Hacked Goverment and School Web Sites

Submitted by MacRonin on January 10, 2008 - 9:02pm
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Finding Hacked Goverment and School Web Sites: It's surprisingly easy to find government and educational institutions'that have been'appropriated by hackers - in fact, the most recent display in the seemingly never-ending parade of such hacked sites can be found with a simple Google search. The black hat tactic of'setting up an online porn shop on a'taxpayer-funded website'gives new meaning to the phrase 'government-owned.'

If you are not adverse to seeing crude and obscene search results, you can see for yourself by trying a search such as site:*.gov porn or site:.edu 'free ringtones''. Today those searches will'show you a whole nest of nasty subdomains on the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority's web site -- among others. Often, you find small towns whose sites'are hosting'hundreds of nasty pages - with the townspeople blissfully unaware.

DO NOT CLICK through on these search results, especially if you are running Internet Explorer on a Windows machine. Some of these pages are hosting exploits, not just pages of porn.

I'd'stumbled across'this trick a while ago, but was just reminded of it by this post from the always entertaining Alex Eckelberry, the CEO of Sunbelt Software. He runs one of the most entertaining and informative security blogs, which I highly recommend bookmarking.

Photo: Lasse Havelund

(Read Original Article - Via Threat Level.)

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