A few days ago, there was a problem with the community blogs on Obama's website--a big problem. Some of Obama supporters who were trying to visit the blogs section of Obama's site were being redirected to Clinton's official campaign site. Security researchers have stated that "the hacker exploited a so-called "cross-site scripting" vulnerability in Obama's website to engineer the ruse." The problem has been fixed, but it may have had a small impact since it was only a few days before the Penn. primary. Those people who may have still been undecided could have gone onto Obama's website, and found themselves on Clinton's. The article says that the stunt was probably just a prank. I don't mean to sound like a conspiracy theorists, but I wonder if there is a possibility that it was the work of someone working in her campaign. It is also possible it was just someone who was a strong supporter of hers or really hates Obama, but one thing is clear--the hacker wanted people to be at Clinton's page instead of Obama's website.
The article also pointed out a good point: by not fully securing their website, candidates risk exposing people to computer viruses and identity theft. The article also said that this probably wont be the last time that we see something like this since this is such a closely watched election. Hopefully the candidates will learn from this mistake and be sure to secure their sites, but with the way the internet know, I feel like nothing is 100%.
The article can be found at: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gA48mwaxd7IaRSvOHSjPoSXIHwnQD907RTD80
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