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

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

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