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Hackers broke into my site — yours might be next

Woody Leonhard

By Woody Leonhard

Last week, somebody using a Russian Internet address stuck a line of unwanted HTML code — an iFrame exploit — on the AskWoody.com main page, and my life suddenly got very complicated.

It could happen to you: once the province of propeller heads and tech terrorists, hacking Web sites has become as easy as running a kiddie script.

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