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Hack targets a Canadian government website
The Canadian government just suffered an embarrassing online security breach... although it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Officials temporarily took down key parts of two government websites, the tax-oriented Canada Revenue Agency and Statistics Canada, for days after discovering that an unknown entity hacked the statistics bureau's website. The intruders took advantage of a recent vulnerability in Apache web server software to get in. While the CRA site wasn't attacked, it shared the same vulnerabilities -- the government took down its pages (including online filing and payment systems) as a precaution while applying patches.
