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Hacked Jefferson County Library Website Back Online
Automated attack system, that trolls the Internet, infected a community website hosted by the library and spread to the library's website itself. All is now OK.
The Jefferson County Library's infected website is now in better health and is back online, reports library director Pam Klipsch.
The library website was victimized by a hacker earlier this week that produced warning messages to those who tried to visit it.
"Our IT department was able to track the problem through the HTML code and find the security breach, which occurred in an old PERL-based application used by a community web site hosted on our server, and then spread from there, Klipsch said. "It appears to have been one of those automated attack systems that are used to troll the Internet, and not anyone specifically targeting the library. The breach has been repaired and the server and web sites secured. Library staff have run scans on all of our in house computers to make sure they are clean.
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"This is a fact of life in today’s online world,” Klipsch said in an earlier story. “It was just our turn to get hit.”
The , at 1701 Missouri State Road, is part of the Jefferson County Library system.
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