In The News: Web Forums Hijacked to Spread Child Porn

The above is an older article from June of 2007, but I thought it was a good article to highlight the spread of attacks on websites, even you would not expect an attack on. Hackers attacked and infiltrated well-known sites, including ones that are for kids, inserting links to pages that contained pornography.

This is a good reminder to make sure the web security proxy you're using for your organization's access to the internet has the ability to look at embedded links and rate them separately from the main page. That way your users still get the content they're looking for and you get to block out the malicious content that was inserted by hackers.