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[_] Hack attempt

Tim Beadle tim.beadle at gmail.com
Tue Jul 29 11:48:07 BST 2008

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Simon Dingley
<newsgroups at creativenrg.co.uk> wrote:
> Thanks Tim, as far as I can tell the intruder did not succeed despite
> repeated attempts which I know about because I get emailed copies of all
> exceptions on the site. The site makes use of Stored Procedures almost
> exclusively which I think was one thing in my favour.

I was tasked with fixing a similar SQL injection attack recently
(which was succeeding) and, despite knowing ~zero ASP, I implemented
the solution described here:
http://blogs.iis.net/nazim/archive/2008/04/28/filtering-sql-injection-from-classic-asp.aspx

It's sticking plaster, but it did the job.

Tim
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