Hackers have exploited flaws in a popular open-source advertising software to
place malicious code on advertisements on several popular Web sites over the
past week.
The attackers are taking advantage of a pair of bugs in the OpenX advertising
software to login to advertising servers and then place malicious code on ads
being served on the sites. On Monday, cartoon syndicator King Features said that
it had been hacked last week, because of the OpenX bugs. The company's Comics
Kingdom product, which delivers comics and ads to about 50 Web sites, was
affected.
