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SQL Injection Turns BusinessWeek Into Viral Replicator

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the glad-it's-not-us dept.

martins writes "The website of popular magazine BusinessWeek has been attacked via SQL injection in an attempt to infect its readership with malware. Hundreds of pages in a section of BusinessWeek's website which offers information about where MBA students might find future employers have been affected."

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  1. Hmm by LizardKing · · Score: 5, Funny

    It really is fscked. Every job advert is for Lehmans.

    1. Re:Hmm by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hundreds of pages in a section of BusinessWeek's website which offers information about where MBA students might find future employers have been affected."

      So no great loss to society then.

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      No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
  2. That's frightening by Centurix · · Score: 4, Funny

    A replicant virus. Is it a virus or a replicant? Will it need retiring? If the website hosted a picture of a turtle on its back, will it rotate the picture 180 degrees? Will we know if it's a replicant virus or a real virus by the end of the article?

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    Task Mangler
  3. Bobby Tables is at it again... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bobby Tables is at it again...

  4. more economic woes by prgrmr · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hundreds of pages in a section of BusinessWeek's website which offers information about where MBA students might find future employers have been affected

    I suppose McDonald's is going to have to rely on employing just the liberal arts majors for now.