Hacker Redirects Barack Obama’s site to hillaryclinton.com

A security weakness in Barack Obama’s website has been exploited to redirect visitors to Hillary Clinton’s website. Visitors who viewed the Community Blogs section of the site were instead presented with Clinton’s website as a result of a cross-site scripting vulnerability.
A user named Mox, from Liverpool, IL, posted an apparent confession in the Community Blogs […]

Clinton and Obama XSS Battle Develops

While Clinton and Obama are battling it out in the political arena, security researchers are continuing to find vulnerabilities in the candidates’ and supporters’ websites. Interestingly, while a typical exploit is to redirect one party’s site to their opponent’s, the reasons for seeking to discover such vulnerabilities are not always politically motivated.
Following the recent cross-site […]

Google Offers Free Web Application Hosting

Google has made a bolder move into web application hosting, unveiling the preview release of its Google App Engine service.
The Google App Engine allows developers to build web applications on the same systems that power other Google applications, affording good scalability without needing to worry about infrastructure. For those who are familiar with the Python […]

Deluded SCO CEO on witness stand: “Linux is a copy of UNIX”

Darl McBride entered a courtroom to assert his rights regarding legacy System V code, which he still contends exists within Linux. This despite years of discovery turning up zero evidence to support the assertion. Ars reports from the scene of the Novell v. SCO trial.
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War on Drugs Destroys Yet Another Family

SAN DIEGO - A woman who escaped from a Detroit prison 32 years ago has been arrested in San Diego, where she was married with three children and living under a false name, authorities said. The decades-old drug charges are from when she was just 19.
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Clinton to O’Reilly: “Rich people, God bless us.”

America’s favorite working-class hero reminds us of her $109 million post-White House windfall in this revealing moment on Falafel Bill O’Reilly’s teevee show. (Plus a bonus clip!)
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