Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th Apr 2008 19:22 UTC, submitted by Hakime
Last week, The Washington Post reported that hundreds of thousands of IIS webservers were hacked. Code was placed on them that installed malware on visitors' computers. Among the infectees were websites from the UK government and the United Nations. Initial reports said the attackers used a security vulnerability in Microsoft's IIS, but the company published more information on the attacks today, and denies IIS was compromised.
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2005-11-10
I can imagine the IT weekly article:
Businesses: sanitise your programmers!