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United Nations vs SQL Injections

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the virtual-security-is-hard-too dept.

Giorgio Maone writes "The United Nations web site has been defaced by 3 crackers who replaced the speeches of the Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon with their own pacifist message. This article briefly analyzes the exploited vulnerability and the technology used on the server, both quite surprising to find in such a high profile site."

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  1. Re:U.N.Constitutional by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think it's kind of funny how the U.S. is brown-nosing the U.N., now that things aren't going too well in Iraq. "Ohhhhhh.. we broke it, can you fix it, please!"

  2. Re:Hackers vs The General Assembly by CannonballHead · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    How familiar are you with middle eastern history? The land that Israel is in now is smaller than the land they had 3500 years ago. They took the land from races that no longer exist. Saying that Israel is "stealing" Palestinian land... well, they aren't; the Palestinians are trying to take Israel's land.

    To the point, I might add, that at the moment, Muslims have control of the temple mount... the Hebrew/Jewish temple mount. And they put a mosque on it. They have done numerous things specifically to insult the Jews... for religious reasons. Now, are you going to argue that the Islamic religion is older than the Jewish religion? He lived in the 6th century, AD; Moses lived quite a bit earlier than that. Even secular skeptics will agree that the Old Testament was written before the 6th century AD... I mean, the Jews were persecuted by the Romans, attacked by the Persians, Babylonians, Assyrians... this is ancient history, not 5th century history.

    With that in mind, then, and knowing that the Jewish temple was in place long, long before the Islamic religion existed, how is it that Israel is stealing Palestinian lands... when an Islamic mosque sits on top of the Jews' temple mount itself?

    To argue that Israel is "stealing" Palestinian land... well, if I squatted on your land and kicked you off, I'm not sure you'd think you were stealing it if you decided to try to take it back.

    And again, with that in mind, the way the Islamic countries are fighting Israel is far from humane. Bombings, random missles... well, a previous post summed it up nicely.

    But, strangely enough, as previously mentioned... paper from the UN doesn't really seem to affect the Islamic religious militaries. They don't seem to care. I wonder why? Perhaps it's like a mother who just tells his child over and over that "you're gonna get it if you do that again!" ... but the child very quickly learns that he never DOES get it.