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Hacker Exposes Unfixed Security Flaws In Pentagon Website

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A Romanian hacker has posted a proof-of-concept attack exploiting vulnerabilities on the Pentagon's public Website that were first exposed several months ago and remain unfixed.

The hacker, who goes by Ne0h, demonstrated input validation errors in the site's Web application that allow an attacker to wage a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. The XSS vulnerability had been previously disclosed by at least two other researchers several months ago -- and Ne0h's findings show the bug is still on the site....

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http://www.darkreading.com/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222001155

and he maid the news again :P

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