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Posted on January 7, 2013 by Sophos

DHS website falls victim to hacktivist intrusion

Hacktivist group NullCrew recently announced a succesful intrusion against a website in the DHS.GOV domain hierarchy.

It looks as though the site was vulnerable to what’s known as a directory traversal vulnerability.

CategoriesApache, DHS, directory traversal, hacktivist, Naked Security, nullcrew, Security, Security threats TagsFeatured, PHP, Vulnerability

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