500 Thousand MS Web Servers Hacked

andrewd18 writes "According to F-Secure, over 500,000 webservers across the world, including some from the United Nations and UK government, have been victims of a SQL injection. The attack uses an SQL injection to reroute clients to a malicious javascript at nmidahena.com, aspder.com or nihaorr1.com, which use another set of exploits to install a Trojan on the client's computer. As per usual, Firefox users with NoScript should be safe from the client exploit, but server admins should be alert for the server-side injection. Brian Krebs has a decent writeup on his Washington Post Security Blog, Dynamoo has a list of some of the high-profile sites that have been hacked, and for fun you can watch some of the IIS admins run around in circles at one of the many IIS forums on the 'net."

Comments

Re:Bias?

[MrMr]

I don't know what to say.
That's pretty obvious.

How is the alledged fact that a LAMP stack would have been more vulnerable to this IIS directed attack relevant to this story? No claims of superiority for any server software in the blurb. Are you just trolling?