Today’s News FSA Boss Quits
I’ve decided to do a new piece called Today’s News,
What I’ll do is take a quick look on the Television news stations to work out what is the top news story and then I’ll give the website of the company or organisation a quick test. I’ll also state how long it too me to find the issue.
The site will be notified of course and I’ll update the blog post with any updates and responses from the site admin.
This will most likely be based on a Web Application Security (WebAppSec) test. I’ll leave out all of the 404′s and orphaned links etc.
Today’s major story was that the head of the FSA and a close advisor to Gordon Brown resigned.
FSA
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7883409.stm
Site = http://www.fsa.gov.uk/
Defect Found =XSS
Time Taken to find from arriving at homepage = 3minutes and 12 seconds.
Now some people may think that this is low hanging fruit type stuff and you may be correct, however as these sites in question will be all over the TV today and front page on tomorrows papers they are easy targets for potential hackers and Seo BalackHats alike.