Hackers Broke Into Brazil Power Grid Operator's Website Last Thursday 85
An anonymous reader writes "A week ago, 60 Minutes had a story (we picked it up too) claiming that hackers had caused power outages in Brazil. While this assertion is now believed to be in error, hackers were inspired by the story actually to do what was claimed. Last Thursday, they broke into ONS, the operator of the grid (Google translation; Portuguese original). DarkReading has specific details on the SQL injection vulnerabilities the hackers probably used."
closed systems (Score:3, Funny)
One would think critical power networks would be close systems.
SQL injection? (Score:3, Funny)
Somebody's fired.
Do you believe in Coincidence? (Score:3, Funny)
60min does a story on the security of Brazil's power grid, Brazil says its not true, a few days later, they have the worst power outage in a decade, and now this story.....
Re:Or maybe... (Score:2, Funny)
Oh, come on. Unless his Mom named him Roberto'); DROP TABLE Hackers; , little Bobby Tables is never going to register under his real name, do you?
Breaking News (Score:5, Funny)
Today hackers gained access to my bank account and increased the ballance to 100 millions dollars without alerting authorities.
Actually that didn't happen. My bank account is perfectly secure. There are no hackers anywhere that are smart enough to do such a thing.
Re:SQL injection? (Score:5, Funny)
Or everybody's fired!
Re:Or maybe... (Score:5, Funny)
Original xkcd reference. http://xkcd.com/327/ [xkcd.com]
Busy hackers! (Score:2, Funny)