Kris Jansing MSNBC--Tech consultant said Lieberman's site hacked

[Skidmore]

via one of the comment boxes. Someone put a long string of characters in to confuse the server and slipped a virus in that way. Now how he knows this absolutely, I don't know. He just said it was hacked for certain.

[unda cova brutha]

1. ha ha ha

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. Not bloody likely

Unless the page was designed to allow that to happen, or the site admins were incredibly stupid and using very outdated software with known and demonstrated flaws.

[meldroc]

43. I've seen it happen...

The specific vulnerability mentioned is called an SQL injection, which means the user typed a string designed to be misinterpreted as SQL database code, causing you to be able to hack the database to do your evil bidding.

As an example, think of what would happen in a search box like you see on many sites if you typed in the box 'foobar"; DELETE TABLE' or something similar (my SQL-fu isn't especially strong, but you should get the idea. That string is passed to the database as a command "SELECT * FROM table WHERE string = "foobar"; DELETE TABLE"...

Good web software should be able to check for this, and disallow characters and strings that would enable users to inject SQL through web forms, but there's always places where checks are missed, or clever hackers can find ways to circumvent the checks.

I've seen it happen on live websites first-hand.

[sabra]

3. time to get a new tech consultant...

:crazy:

[tridim]

4. Unless Kris Jansing has server access he's talking BS

If he's taking the word of Joe's web staff, he doesn't know "absolutely".

Joe and the MSM's last-minute smear campaign is going off without a hitch.

[Skidmore]

14. Sorry, Kris Jansing was the CNN anchor interviewing the tech.

I wasn't clear about that.

[VolcanoJen]

15. MSNBC anchor.

As if there's a difference. :-)

[Skidmore]

21. I need a nap.

[dogday]

5. So much for the security factor

on that server.....

[KurtNYC]

6. So Lieberman (as demonstrated by his website) is soft on security

just kidding but wow, could MSNBC be any less technical??

[librechik]

7. hmmph! They'd have to allow JavaScript in the comment boxes

and you'd have to be an idiot to do that

[librechik]

28. maybe somebody forgot to pay the bill

it looks like a standard past due out-of-money page when you go there, not a DOS like Lieberman's people are implying

[Richard Steele]

8. Bull. Let's hear from the WEBHOST'S tech consultants, huh?

Their voices seem oddly ABSENT from this propaganda shitstorm.

[Norquist Nemesis]

13. Do we know who that is? n/t

[htuttle]

9. A long comment leads to a buffer overflow exploit?

Were they using software from 1992, or what? How do they know that somebody didn't just post a long comment if they're that vulnerable?

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard...

[Norquist Nemesis]

11. Maybe a Deibold tech designed it!

Lieberman is now saying "they are trying to disenfranchise voters". What?????? Huh????? How a candidate's website affects getting to a poll and casting a vote is beyond me!

[Mabus]

25. If this were the case

it would be kinda funny if the comment text that took the site down was nothing but an ad for a casino. I've seen more than a few blogs and comment boxes filled with repetitive "come play poker, blackjack, etc." ads.

[htuttle]

27. "d1scount C1alis!"

[Mabus]

29. there are those too

Damn they're annoying. :rofl:

[AndyA]

10. Bullshit. A comment box? Which is normally parsed through the

cgi-bin, by a script that specifically tells the server what to do with the information provided in the comment boxes.

Reprogramming the server via a comment box is not usually included in a script that processes a form field.

BULLSHIT. Try again.

[David Dunham]

12. It looks like the FBI will trace it. Ned supporters may get nabbed.

[Catchawave]

16. Link?

[Howardx]

18. he has no link

he has nothing. he just makes unsupported statements that favor lieberman then offers no backup

[David Dunham]

24. The FBI has been called in. Ned-head hackers had better watch out.

[Beetwasher]

26. You're Bullshit Is Transparent To Everyone

Just sayin'.

Pathetic, really.

[annabanana]

31. just keep jumping thread to thread..

and leave your little dropping all over the place...

(I believe that Skinner has alreaady debunked the hack)

[Scout1071]

34. 3rd time I've seen you post this bullshit with no evidence.

So, what exactly is your agenda?

[flyarm]

39. or rove operatives right??? or freepers who want to play the rovian game

plan???????? right?????????

thought so..

fly

[VolcanoJen]

17. So, by that logic, Ned supporters hacked the site and put up a statement..

.. blaming themselves for the attack.

How, exactly, does that make sense? :eyes:

[Renew Deal]

19. Chinese students may get nabbed.

A 13 year old with a day off at camp may get nabbed.

[Beetwasher]

20. It Looks Like The Federation of Planets Will Trace It. Aliens May Get

Nabbed. :eyes:

Good lord are you full of shit.

[VolcanoJen]

23. I'll bet Suri Cruise is behind this!!!

Hacking from Planet Xenu!!!

:-)

[Mabus]

30. Lieberman's website did go down about the same time KO played that tape

allegedly of Suri Cruise on Countdown last night. Makes you want to go "hmmmmmmmmm", doesn't it?

Not saying the events are connected but I'm not saying they aren't. :evilgrin:

[Richard Steele]

22. Monkey supporters MAY fly out of my ass, as well.

And if they do, _I_ will provide a link!

[MrCoffee]

32. if ANYTHING flies out of your ass, we DEMAND a link!

[Richard Steele]

35. Hmmm...maybe "anything" wasn't the best word choice there?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[MrCoffee]

36. You're right, but let the record show

that I was FOR a link to anything flying out of your ass BEFORE I was against it.

[flyarm]

40. flip flopper!!...lol...

how could you be for it before you were against it???

as for anything flying out of asses..i demand a link as well!!

fly

[MrCoffee]

42. Hey, we've got to fight whatever flies out of his ass over there

so we don't have to fight it over here.

[returnable]

33. You hacked it.

:hi:

[flyarm]

38. OR A FREEPER WHO WANTS IT TO LOOK THIS WAY?? OR ROVE??

Rove's first big splash: Bugging his own campaign headquarters...

Rove soldiered on in obscurity until 1986, when he was working on the second campaign of Bill Clements, a Republican trying to recapture the governor's office after losing it to Democrat Mark White. Rove made news by going public with a complaint that an electronic bugging device had been found in his office--shortly before a scheduled televised debate between the two candidates. "We never took it seriously, because we knew nobody in our shop had anything to do with it," says Dwayne Hollman, who worked for White at the time. Hollman said it was assumed that it was a publicity stunt. "It was investigated by the FBI," Hollman said, "and nothing ever came of it."

Yet some wonder what "came of" Rove's meeting with FBI agent Greg Rampton, who conducted that investigation. Local authorities who looked into the bugging seem to agree with Hollman's assessment. "We were the first on the scene and concluded that Rove had hired a company to debug his office, and that the same company had planted the bug," says a source involved in the Travis County DA office's investigation. But the media reported that Rampton had determined there was nothing to pursue.

Two years later, Rampton began an investigation that involved his setting up shop in the offices of Garry Mauro, the state land commissioner and later the loser in the 1998 gubernatorial race won by George W. Bush. Mauro said Rampton informed him that a former Land Commission employee was involved in an appraisals scheme that involved the commission. "I told my general counsel to tell to come on in," Mauro said. Rampton accepted the invitation. "On the day of the Democratic state convention, I got a subpoena for every document you could possibly imagine," Mauro said.

...


http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010305/dubose


AND JUST WHERE WAS ALL THE MEDIA WHEN THE DEMS HAD THE PHONES JAMMED IN A RPESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN NH??????????

AND WHERE WAS THE MEDIA ATTENTION WHEN THAT SAME GUY WAS TRIED AND CONVICTED AND SAID HE WAS TOLD TO DO THIS BY SOMEONE HIGH UP IN THE WH??????????

YEAH I THOUGHT SO..JUST SLIPPED THEIR MINDS RIGHT??

fly

[Touchdown]

37. Kris Jansing??? Sounds like a Cobert fake name.

Alpha Centauri 7: Lady Noctourne. A Tech Jansen Adventure.

[flyarm]

41. where is AGENT MIKE when we need him???????? n/t