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Backdoor Found In OpenX Ad Platform

Posted by Soulskill on from the eroding-what-little-trust-exists dept.

mask.of.sanity writes "A backdoor has existed for at least seven months in a platform sold by OpenX, the self-described global leader of digital advertising which counts the New York Post, Coca Cola, Bloomberg and EA among its customers. The backdoor was contained within the official OpenX package and recently removed. Security researchers say it meant those who downloaded the compromised software could have provided attackers full access to their web sites."

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  1. Re: Would you steal a Car? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You must be the kind of person who steals candy from babies too.

    Honestly, there is no legitimate reason to run Adblock if you live in an English speaking part of the world. You block, you're a thief. This is not like video interstitials on TV/youtube that waste your time by not being skip able.

    The bandwidth argument can only be applied to 2.5G EDGE networks.

    The real problem with OPENX is that it's the example that proves the rule that open source doesn't automatically make something better.