Oregon University System's Web Site Replaced With Angry Message About Iran
Submitted by Adam Dodge on Wed, 2009-06-24 08:34
Quick Facts
- Date: 6/24/2009
- Institution: Oregon University System
- Type of Incident: Penetration
- Number Affected: None
- Source: ESI
- Abstract Source: The Wired Campus
Abstract
Recent visitors to the Oregon University System's main web site were greeted with an angry message to President Obama. It appears that a hacker was able to redirect traffic to the main web site to a site that claimed to be "from Iran". The redirect was up for about 90 minutes before staff became aware of the problem. While staff do not know exactly how the site was breached, officials say that staff will pay closer attention to the third party applications used to maintain the web site that do not automatically install updates.