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Policy.com Cyber Attack Highlights Vulnerabilities and Security Threats

Calendar Nov 16, 2000 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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Politics Web site Policy.com late this morning was cracked by unknown assailants who replaced the home page with one of their own, and told the site's operators that they did it to alert Policy.com to its own security vulnerabilities, and not . . . Politics Web site Policy.com late this morning was cracked by unknown assailants who replaced the home page with one of their own, and told the site's operators that they did it to alert Policy.com to its own security vulnerabilities, and not as a malicious prank.

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