Netcraft is reporting that the Barak Obama campaign site has been hacked to re-direct visitors to Hilary Clinton's web site. Hard to tell if the guy who did it was truly politically motivated or just demonstating how susceptable Obama's site was to cross site scripting.
Meanwhile, Chinese hackers are attacking CNN through one of its sports sites. Google cache here.
Maybe it is time for even the casual webmaster to worry about security. Either that or put up with embarrasing episodes such as these.
About Stiennon
Richard Stiennon is a security industry analyst. He is currently consulting, speaking and writing on all manner of security topics for IT-Harvest, the IT research firm he founded to cover the security space. He was most recently chief marketing officer for Fortinet. He has served stints at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Gartner, and Webroot Software.
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