Showing posts with label BBC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BBC. Show all posts

Thursday, February 17, 2011

BBC Sites Injected with Nasty IFRAME

An article in Dark Reading today tells about a nasty attack on two BBC sites that has an IFRAME injected onto the site that downloads nastiness to your computer, and only 20% of the anti-virus software packages catch it. OW!

Read the article

Key thing is injected. It almost makes it sound like BBC is a victim, doesn't it? "Hey did you read how the bad guys injected this nasty code into two BBC sites?" Folks, in a sense they ARE a victim, with an unwanted set of code put there by some 3rd party. But um, hello??!! YOU LEFT THE DOOR OPEN!!

When you read the word "injected", think "unwitting developer leaving a wide open door for hacker to put stuff on their site". BBC...surely lots of developers, a few development managers, must have some infosec and compliance people. And a hole like that is left open?

Maybe it was a tricky hole or something really brilliant that got around the standard defenses. But I have a hard time thinking that is the case.

In any case, the developers left a hole open.

So my question to you is:

How many headlines will it take before you change your code?

Don't wait until you ARE the headline...