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Incident WHID 2006-17

WHID 2006-17: Mass defacement using XSS at Israblog
Date: 05 April 2006
Incident Type: Security Breach
WASC Threat Classification: Cross-site Scripting

Israblog is a large Israeli blogging site. A hacker used XSS to hijack bloggers sessions and deface them. The defacing was used to inform the world that Israblog lead developer is a bad programmer.

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