Reflecting on the 2007 hacking of the Microsoft UK events website

Reflecting on the 2007 hacking of the Microsoft UK events website

Back in 2007, the partner event registration page of the Microsoft UK events website has been defaced by a hacker who managed to discover and exploit a web application vulnerability in one of the parameters used by the form on the website.

Read more in this article about how an SQL injection vulnerability, server-side enabled error messages, and non-filtered parameters lead to a successful attack.

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