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10.05.05
SpreadFirefox.com Hacked Again
 By David Utter
The evangelist site for the Firefox browser has been attacked again and will be
offline through October.
MozillaZine reports
that an unpatched vulnerability in the TWiki software was exploited by remote
attackers. Only Spread Firefox was affected; no other Mozilla sites were impacted
by the attack.
Despite new processes being in place after a July attack exploited an unpatched
flaw in the Drupal content management system, administrators failed to update
the TWiki software. Mozilla says TWiki is not used on the main Spread Firefox
site.
The Mozilla Foundation notified its registered users via email about the attack;
part of the message appears below:
The TWiki software was disabled
as soon as we were aware of the attempts to access SpreadFirefox.com. This exploit
was limited to SpreadFirefox.com and did not affect mozilla.org web sites or Mozilla
software.
We have scanned Spread Firefox servers and at this time do not believe any sensitive
data was taken, but as a precautionary measure we have shutdown the site and will
be rebuilding the web site from scratch.
About the Author:
David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business. |
