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The Web Hacking Incidents Database
Last update:17 February 2008
List of Incidents for a Classification
Please note that classifications are a new feature and not all entries in WHID are already classified, so when you get a certain number of entries for a classification, WHID might have more records matching that classification that we did not classify yet. We hope to complete the classification process soon.
Select classification:
Attack Method, Country, Location, Origin, Outcome, Software, Vertical Select criteria for classification "Attack Method":
Abuse of Functionality, Administration Error, Brute Force, Buffer Overflow, Content Spoofing, Credential/Session Prediction, Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF), Cross Site Scripting (XSS), Denial of Service, Directory Indexing, Drive by Pharming, Failure to Restrict URL Access, Format String Attack, HTTP Response Splitting, Improper Error Handling, Insecure Direct Object Reference, Insufficient Anti-automation, Insufficient Authentication, Insufficient Authorization, Insufficient Process Validation, Insufficient Session Expiration, Known Vulnerability, LDAP Injection, Misconfiguration, OS Commanding, Other, Path Traversal, Predictable Resource Location, Redirection, Session Fixation, Session Hijacking, SQL Injection, SSI Injection, Unintentional Information Disclosure, Unknown, Weak Password Recovery Validation, XPath Injection
List of incidents for which Attack Method is Denial of Service
4 incidents listed
Reported: 22 January 2008Occurred: 20 January 2008
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
- Attack Method: SQL Injection
- Attack Method: Denial of Service
- Attack Method: SQL Injection
- Country: Global
- Country: USA
- Outcome: Defacement
- Outcome: Downtime
- Outcome: Defacement
- Vertical: Entertainment
The web site of RIAA, the Recording Industry Association of America was attacked twice using SQL injection over the weekend. First a query that takes particularly long time was posted on a social network web site causing a distributed denial of service attack against the site. Later on hackers found and abused additional SQL injection and XSS vulnerabilities resulting in major defacement of the site.
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Reported: 05 November 2007Occurred: 05 November 2007
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Denial of Service
- Country: Australia
- Outcome: Loss of Sales
- Vertical: Retail
Seems that the there is a new trend to disrupt on line bidding using denial of service attacks. In this case, an auction for 37 very expensive watches was halted 20 minutes before the end as the site crashed, in what official sources describe as a hacker attack that did not result in a site compromise.
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Reported: 25 October 2007Occurred: 23 October 2007
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Denial of Service
- Country: USA
- Outcome: Loss of Sales
- Vertical: Sports
The site of the Rockies was taken down by a denial of service preventing fans from buying tickets for the World Series games.
Like any DDoS attack, it is very hard to know if it was an application layer or network layer attack, but since this attack had a very significant financial impact by crippling a web site, we think it deserve a place in WHID.
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Reported: 12 September 2005Occurred: 08 September 2005
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Unknown
- Attack Method: Denial of Service
Teen convicted of threatening an ISP with DOS attack, among other computer hacking activities
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