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Superbowl Exploits
Ryan Naraine reports that the Superbowl XLI site was hacked and seeded with exploits that will install a keylogger and backdoor that give the crooks access to the compromised machine.
This is doubling interesting to me since Ross Jardine and I did the first two Superbowl sites on the Web for Superbowls XXIX and XXX. We even owned the domain name superbowl.com at one point. For Superbowl XXIX (1995) we ran a contest and gave away Superbowl merchandise each day with a grand prize of two Superbowl tickets. In 1994, that was a great way to build traffic and put iMall.com on the map.
Posted by windley on February 3, 2007 1:16 PM
Comment from KellyHall at February 4, 2007 1:03 AM
That giveaway contest was my first Perl-based CGI script. I recall you loaned me the "Learning Perl" book and decreed I wouldn't write the CGI in C like I wanted to :)
C, Perl, and vi have been permanent tools in my professional life ever since.
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