Political Defacement

A targeted defacement that modified two specific press releases to ridicule the local government.

Additional information:

• Nosy hacker alters sheriff's news releases [The Daily Bulletin, Jun 22 2008]

MySpace seems to be a heaven for XSS worms. This one seems to be even more interesting as it uses JavaScript embedded in a flash file. It is also interesting as it seems to combine the popular political defacement trend with high level application layer exploit.

Additional information:

• Myspace Hack spreading like wildfire: SPAIRLKAIFS [Chase and Sam page, Jul 16 2006]
• How the myspace SWF hack worked [Unknown, Jul 16 2006]
• Political hacking hits MySpace [SC Magazine, Jul 17 2006]