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Telegraph website hit by hackers
16/04/2010 14:58:50
Hackers have managed to infiltrate a section of The Daily Telegraph's website and replace its holiday and food and drink pages with a picture of a Romanian flag.
The media group came under fire from hackers who were said to have been motivated to launch the attack after the Telegraph referred to Romanians as gypsies, according to The Guardian.
The site's short breaks and wine and dine sections were replaced with the flag, claiming to be for "Romanian National Security", and there were several other comments in Romanian. The post also linked to a Russian site that plays an audio recording called The Lonely Shepherd.
The only text in English read: "Guess what, gypsies aren't Romanians, morons."
The embarrassing security breach comes about a year after a partner website of the Telegraph Media Group was hacked, exposing the email addresses of registered users on part of that site.
Internet forum Hackersblog, which has exposed the ease with which several prominent websites can be hacked, claimed all databases at the Telegraph are vulnerable to SQL injection attack.
Tony Osborn, a security expert at Symantec, said in order to protect websites from such attacks, companies must ensure web fronting systems are secure.
"Simple measures include applying basic information risk management, prioritising web-facing systems and ensuring patches are always up to date," he said.
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