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A hacker's prank switched tracks from camp Obama to camp Clinton.

Posted April 24, 2008 7:00 AM
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by Mark Silva

People who logged on to Sen. Barack Obama's campaign Web-site and went looking for an online community of the like-minded ended up at Sen. Hllary Clinton's Web-site instead.

The work of a hacker.

A flaw in the computer coding of Obama's site and a mischievous surfer who exploited it are blamed for the detour days before the Pennsylvania primary.

Some who tried to visit the community blogs section of Obama's site started noticing last week that they were being redirected to Clinton's campaign site. Security sleuths said a hacker had taken advantage of a "cross-site scripting" vulnerability in Obama's site. Netcraft Ltd. said the hacker injected code into certain pages, code then executed when visitors tried to go to Obama's community blogs section.

Needless to say, that cross-site Windows-dressing has been removed.

The hackng appears to have been a prank, but researchers suggest that this breach exposes the vulernable underbelly of the candidates' online operations. Try this: A similar mechanism could be employed to redirect visitors a site that steals personal information from visitors -- or maybe even make Obama contributions to Clinton.

"With people closely watching the heated contest to determine the next U.S. president, you can bet that this won't be the last time such attacks happen," Symantec Corp. researcher Zulfikar Ramzan wrote on the company's official blog.

The Associated Press relayed this story from San Jose, assuming hackers wion't know the way to make use of this intelligence..

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Comments

Well, now when you go on his site, you are hit with a bunch of Javascript bombs. Looks like he has some pretty weak web developers on staff.


Interesting; it seems that Clinton has gained the core 'Hacker Lobbyist' vote.

Why does it seem that only Clinton and Repub supporters are the ones breaking laws and pulling dirty tricks?


You think Obama can keep us safe from terrorist ? He can't even keep his web-site safe !


Are hackers also to blame for the numerous spelling mistakes found throughout the article?


CLinton cannot manage her Campaign without going BROKE and in DEBT.

Is this the way she will run the United States in DEBT AND BOMBING IRAN to keep us farther in DEBT just like Bush.


Can I trust what I'm reading? Is this the site to whom I am posting??


Anybody put this beneath the HRC campaign, or the candidate herself? I don't.


Jonathan Coke, you are correct in your suspicions. Someone at the Sun-Times is (finally) getting even with the Trib for winning their Rename Wrigley Field video contest. Mwaah!

As for dirty tricks right before the primary election...was this a 'rogue' (they're always called that) Clinton Supporter, or was this part of Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos? You should ask him.


Mr.D.
"You think Obama can keep us safe from terrorist ? He can't even keep his web-site safe !"
It appears to be easier to keep us safe from terrorists than from Billary. The Clintonians are desperate and unpredictable.


Gotta love Hillary supporters..


His website is www.barackobama.com. He doesn't even own the Obama.com domain. If you look at the WHOIS info for Obama.com it was registered in 2001 by "Onamae.com", what appears to be a Japanese based company. Barackobama.com was registered in 2004 by GoDaddy.


"The work of a hacker" is not a complete sentence. Is this the same columnist that started an article with "OMG" last week?


OK, ignore my last message. I guess there was an actual hack on the official Obama site, but the headline is inaccurate.


This sounds like an inside job by some of the Rove-like Oba-maniacs, who will apparently stoop as low as they can go to get their guy nominated for the next race. I mean really, is a campaign populated by folks that say "if you're not with us you're against the country" really be about change? Doesn't that sound alot like "if you're not with us you're against us"?


"Why does it seem that only Clinton and Repub supporters are the ones breaking laws and pulling dirty tricks?"

Hill had nothing to do with this. So what on earth are you chattering about??


To those who think Senator Obama's website being hacked = lack of ability to keep the country safe, let me say this: I don't think he majored in computer tech. My brother is a computer wiz. He gets hacked. The US government agencies get hacked. Microsoft gets hacked.
What we need is someone who cares about people and has judgement, insight, intelligence and heart.
Computer programs are not the equivalent of a country full of people.
Da.


Let me get this straight.....A HACK comes the same day that the Clinton Camp claims $10,000,000 in 24 Hours....

Interesting


Once again, the clintons show themselves to be in the same dirty tricks catagory of Richard Nixon. They probably have a group of plumbers, too.


None of this will matter soon as Obama's buddy comes in to finish him off.
As of late we've seen him bumbling through his speeches, being his sole strength this is important,what is distracting him lately?
I say it's his old buddy he keeps hearing over and over in his head,,REZKO, REZKO, REZKO........


That explains how Hillary raised $10mil


303 DELEGATES

TO OBAMA VICTORY

434 FOR CLINTON

HACK THAT


Glen Beck exposed the core of black liberation theology/ Obama and Wright's church. It states that whites are the enemy that needs to be destroyed by any means. IF THIS BECOMES WIDELY KNOWN NOBODY IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WILL VOTE FOR OBAMA. Here is Glen Beck on CNN... PLEASE WATCH IT IS VITAL INFO THAT NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_cA0GEV1ibY


what this campaige has turned into is why I went with obama I hate this type of crap!! If Hillary gets by with this we have not been able to move any goal posts and it will be business as usual in washington with no hope of change If it is hill and mc Caine I will not vote!!!!!! Dito on the hack and the money thing i think it should be looked into.


I am also curious about e-mails that Obama supporters have received from the Clinton campaign thanking them for their donations! Sounds a bit scandalous to me.


The Clinton campaign lacked organization, fired 2 managers, was in debt, and didn't have a website capable of doing the things Obama is now famous for. So, what does Clinton do? She copy cats off of Obama's brilliant internet donor base. Remember voters, the Clintons don't think the African American votes are important. Let's prove her wrong.


Those who think the Rezko trial will hurt Obama should take a closer look at the lawsuit against the Clinton's that is starting in court today. You should also look at the ties between Fox's Murdoch and the Clintons. Just because Barack is running a clean campaign, and the republicans are targeting him in their ads (because they want Clinton to win the nomination, there's so much more to smear her with), doesn't mean all of her dirt won't surface in a general election. All they can come up with regarding Barack is the guilt by association thing... Hillary is guilty all on her own.


How do you know what Clinton did and didn't do? You people are so gullible. Why can she lie, steal, and cheat her way to the White House and everyone seems to ignore that bit. Why? Because she has been successful in dividing this country with the usual game of "us" against "them". People have become so egoic and identified themselves with Clinton that they are forgetting that the Clinton's are liars and cheats....


Obama's an idiot I hope he gets elected just so everyone can see what a sham he really is!


Obama's an idiot I hope he gets elected just so everyone can see what a sham he really is!

Just Like Bush right!


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