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by Angsuman Chakraborty.
Original Post: Wiki: A disaster waiting to happen?
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Wiki's allow collaborative editing of web-sites.
Most wikis like the original c2 wiki allow anonymous users to modify the web pages, including complete deletion of contents or insertion of external links. Most of them do maintain backups, few don't.
A targeted script based attack can very easily modify/delete a large number of these pages by crawling through the wiki web. I am sure the admin's will try to recover, however they are pretty much helpless against a dedicated hacker, who can not only use the anonymizer services to post from different IP's, but may also use the drones normally used ...
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