Hacker Code Lingered on Home Depot Website

2011-01-12 08:34

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/11/home-depot-website-compromised/ By Jeremy A. Kaplan FoxNews.com January 11, 2011 The website for do-it-yourself giant Home Depot has been â¦ well, screwed. An IT analyst has uncovered the lingering remnants of a 2009 breach of security on the website of the major retailer: secret code hidden on the website that redirected the user's browser to a site that served up malware. "Somebody managed to deface the site and inject that code, so that anyone visiting the site would have loaded the malicious code from this other site," explained Mike Menefee, founder of security website Infosec Island, which discovered the hack. He stressed that HomeDepot.com isn't presently a threat, nor has it been for quite a while. Experts told FoxNews.com that the hack was discovered by someone and disabled -- and that's the mysterious part of the whole thing. Who leaves malicious code lying in wait -- dormant, disabled and inactive on their site? [...]

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