http://weill.org/2006/01/21/livejournal-owned/ When life happens, it happens here. Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:04:28 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://weill.org/2006/01/21/livejournal-owned/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Jason Sun, 22 Jan 2006 15:47:57 +0000 http://weill.org/2006/01/21/livejournal-owned/#comment-3 I saw it <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/20/1831245" rel="nofollow">mentioned on Slashdot</a> a couple of days ago and didn't think anything of it, but then a buddy of mine mentioned that my account was suspended. Apparently this group called "Bantown" exploited a cross-site scripting vulnerability and gained access to thousands of LiveJournal accounts. I saw an all-caps post made from a hijacked account to a community I'm in; the hackers basically just wanted the LiveJournal staff to publicly admit that LiveJournal is vulnerable to such attacks. Looks like things are cooling down now. After removing the bantown e-mail address from my account and changing my password, I'm now reinstated. I saw it mentioned on Slashdot a couple of days ago and didn’t think anything of it, but then a buddy of mine mentioned that my account was suspended. Apparently this group called “Bantown” exploited a cross-site scripting vulnerability and gained access to thousands of LiveJournal accounts. I saw an all-caps post made from a hijacked account to a community I’m in; the hackers basically just wanted the LiveJournal staff to publicly admit that LiveJournal is vulnerable to such attacks. Looks like things are cooling down now. After removing the bantown e-mail address from my account and changing my password, I’m now reinstated.

]]> http://weill.org/2006/01/21/livejournal-owned/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Deanna Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:40:42 +0000 http://weill.org/2006/01/21/livejournal-owned/#comment-2 Oh, that's good. I noticed your account had been deleted, which seemed really freaking weird... plus I couldn't even ping jweill.org, so I thought you decided to just disappear off the internet :) What exactly is the bantown attack? I hadn't heard about it. Oh, that’s good. I noticed your account had been deleted, which seemed really freaking weird… plus I couldn’t even ping jweill.org, so I thought you decided to just disappear off the internet :) What exactly is the bantown attack? I hadn’t heard about it.

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