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Oklahoma tax commission hacked
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Written by Terence Sequeira
Thursday, 20 May 2010 13:58

The website of the Oklahoma Tax Commission was the apparent victim of a hack in which visitors to the website were prompted to accept an Adobe license agreement and download software.

The hack could not come a worse time for the Commission, whose site is undoubtedly experiencing an uptick in visitors as tax season approaches.

The hack was first noticed by Roger Thompson, chief researcher for security software provider AVG. In his blog posting Thompson warned about the pop-up Adobe license agreement that greeted visitors to the website. Apparently, code was waiting to infect the computer of any visitor who clicked on the agreement's “Accept” button.

Ref: http://www.infosecurity-us.com/view/6869/all-is-not-ok-in-oklahoma-st...