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Hackers Broke Into Brazil Power Grid Operator's Website Last Thursday

Posted by kdawson on from the wolf-no-really-this-time-i-mean-it dept.

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."

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  1. closed systems by Haxx · · Score: 2, Funny

      One would think critical power networks would be close systems.

  2. SQL injection? by XanC · · Score: 2, Funny

    Somebody's fired.

    1. Re:SQL injection? by oGMo · · Score: 5, Funny
      "' WHERE 1=1; UPDATE plant_employees SET status='FIRED'; ..."

      Or everybody's fired!

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  3. Do you believe in Coincidence? by matty619 · · 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.....

  4. Re:Or maybe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    One of the hackers (I'm guessing the one who likes polo shirts) obviously thought it'd be way cooler to take public credit. They have now revoked his invitation to DEF CON.

    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?

  5. Breaking News by lupine · · Score: 4, 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.

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  6. Re:Or maybe... by Tellarin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Original xkcd reference. http://xkcd.com/327/

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  7. Busy hackers! by cpscotti · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's why no one hacked the electronic voting system!! The good guys were busy having fun sql-injecting stuff in some "bigger" system..