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Hackers Use Banner Ads to Carry Out Attack

Posted on November 23, 2004 under Tech

To those of us who have banner ads proudly displayed on Blog Explosion, here’s a little something to think about.

Online intruders breached the security of at least one server at advertising host Falk this weekend and used the computer to distribute an attack to the service’s clients, including The Register, a technology news and opinion site.

In a nutshell, after breaching the server’s security, hackers managed to put up malicious code disguised as banner ads. Isn’t that nice?

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