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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.
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Attack Method, Country, Location, Origin, Outcome, Software, Vertical Select criteria for classification "Country":
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List of incidents for which Country is Canada
3 incidents listed
Reported: 19 December 2007Occurred: 28 June 2007
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Insufficient Anti-automation
- Country: USA
- Country: Canada
- Vertical: Internet
Use of robots and automated software against a web site, as long as it is not done in order to break into the site, falls into a grey area. While hard to classify as an unlawful act, it is usually harmful to the site owner and possibly to the site users. Apart from using valuable resources, such an automated access may breach the site's usage license of public information and might also indicate unlawful activity such as using a botnet. Many times it is hard to know if such a blast of requests is a denial of service attack, brute force password cracking or just a search engine crawler. Going forward we are going to add such incidents to WHID if there is a reason to believe that they are not friendly, even if the actual goal of the attack cannot be easily classified. The Facebook case at hand is a perfect example: while the details are not clear, the fact that Facebook filed a law suit implies that there is fire behind the smoke.
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Reported: 19 December 2007Occurred: 01 December 2007
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Credential/Session Prediction
- Country: Canada
- Outcome: Disclosure Only
- Vertical: Government
The Web site of the Canadian passports authority enables users to access others' record by modifying a value of a parameter in the URI.
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Reported: 30 March 2007Occurred: 29 January 2007
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
- Country: Canada
- Outcome: Defacement
- Vertical: Technology
Nokia's Canadian Web Site was defaced using an XSS attack.
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