Posted on 06/03/2005 5:09:29 AM PDT by N3WBI3
Microsoft acknowledges that hackers booby-trapped its MSN Web site in South Korea to steal passwords from visitors. The company says it was unclear how many Internet users might have been victimized. Microsoft said it cleaned the Web site, www.msn.co.kr, and removed the dangerous software code that unknown hackers inserted this week. Spokesman Adam Sohn said Thursday that Microsoft was confident its English-language Web sites were not vulnerable to the same type of attack.
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The affected Microsoft site in South Korea offers news and other information plus links to the company's free e-mail and search services. Its English-language equivalent is the default home Internet page for the newest versions of its flagship Windows software sold in the United States. The Korean site, unlike U.S. versions, was operated by another company, which Microsoft did not identify. Microsoft's own experts and Korean police were investigating, but Microsoft believes the computers were vulnerable because operators failed to apply necessary software patches, said Sohn, an MSN director. "Our preliminary opinion here was, this was the result of an unpatched operating system," Sohn said. "When stuff is in our data center, it's easier to control. We're pretty maniacal about getting servers patched and keeping our customers safe and protected." Microsoft's acknowledgment of the hacking incident was the latest embarrassment for the world's largest software company, which has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to improve security and promote consumer confidence in its products.
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In recent days no customers have reported problems stemming from visits to the Web site, Sohn said. The hacker program scanned visitors' computers and tried to activate password-stealing software that was found separately to exist on some hacked Chinese Web sites.
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Shouldn't it be M$ is pwned by a Hax0r? :^P
I'm sure champagne corks were popping over at your house on the news. Congratulations! Not.
Get over it I have seen you more than once take joy in a bug in firefox, or some other oss. for you to ignroe this whole thing and just attack me says something about who you are..
I don't go around creating threads about holes in Firefox, much less change the title of the original article to something gleeful like "MSN is owned". Your joy was so overflowing you can't deny it now, we all see where you stand - on the side of the hackers if Microsoft gets hacked.
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