Barack's Donor Data May Be Safe, But Site Was Not Properly Secured
I recently reported on donate.barackobama.com being hacked. While Blue State Digital and the Democratic Nationinal Committee may disagree, I stand by the statement. It was clear that something was incorrectly configured, whether the data that was exposed belonged to Obama’s team or not.
In his report for the Washington Post, Brian Krebs called the hack a “hoax“. The best analysis I can find on what Unu encountered when he stumbled upon Roosevelt University’s calendar database was posted at the Praetorian Prefect blog.
So what actually happened? It appears that the secure areas of barackobama.com (those that use HTTPS:/) had an open redirector that could be used to proxy all traffic through the Obama website.
While the site’s data itself may not have been compromised, the site was still not properly secured. As the folks at Praetorian pointed out, there are several ways to exploit this flaw that could affect the security of my.barackobama.com users.
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How to remove Trojan Horse?
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