Well, in a manner of speaking. The furry toothed hacker set from China is at it again. On Friday they took down a series of websites for the state of Pennsylvania.
From “The Morning Call”:
The Rendell administration learned about 10 a.m. that a virus had infected the Internet site. Agencies affected by the attack were the departments of Education, Labor and Industry, and Military and Veterans Affairs, as well as the Pennsylvania Lottery.
The hackers detected a vulnerability in a media player package and used that to get into the system, said Mia DeVane, a spokeswoman for the Office of Administration. ”When there’s a hack, they get in through a back door,” she said.
DeVane said the state needed to take down the sites ”to make sure a virus couldn’t spread.”
Good handling by the site admin to take down the site to mitigate the spread. Aside from a damage to reputation there wasn’t any data loss according to the article. The site was back online today after correcting the flaw that allowed the hackers to breach the site.
Article Link (thx Paul!)
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