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F-Secure slammed by SQL injection
Last week, F-Secure Corp. was the latest victim in a series of SQL injection attacks targeting security firms,
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according to SearchSecurity.com.
A Romanian hacker detailed the attack on F-Secure's website in a posting on the hackersblog.org forum. The anonymous hacker said he viewed some statistics regarding past virus activity after exploiting coding errors on F-Secure, a Helsinki, Finland-based antivirus vendor's website. The hacker said the website was vulnerable to both SQL injection and cross-site scripting attacks. F-Secure, an Internet services and computer security software vendor, confirmed the breach but characterized it as a low-level threat. The server was taken down for an investigation.
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