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Royal Navy Website Hacked, Passwords Revealed
An anonymous reader writes "The British Royal Navy's website has been suspended after a Romanian hacker exploited SQL injection vulnerabilities to gain access to the site.
The hacker, named 'TinKode,' accessed usernames and passwords used by the site's administrators and published them on the web. TinKode's attack is 'particularly embarrassing for the British Ministry of Defence, as just last month protecting against cyber attacks was declared in the National Security Strategy to be a "highest priority for UK national security."'"
"Lieutenant Droptables please report to the bridge".
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=M2MUEdv4
Fire up your rainbow tables :-)
I don't understand why people need to deface sites just to show ... what ?
They do it just to show how ignorant are the people who are supposed to manage those sites.
The Royal Navy used to be the defense of the UK against invaders. They were supposed to fight to the end, to resist against everyone. Yet, nowadays, some script kiddie is able to defeat the Royal Navy from his mom's basement? WTF???
The message is that the sites can be defeated very easily, that's all.
Have you ever found a glaring security hole in a major website for a major company?
do you know how hard it is for somebody to even begin reporting something like that?
if you are a young adult (aged 12-24) and you find a security hole, do you know how few people will take you seriously? it's amount to telling your teacher there's a problem in every copy of a textbook: they'll just laugh at you and tell you "you just don't know any better".
Yes, I completely agree that there ARE BETTER WAYS to disclose: but by not making them easy enough for a youngster to understand: you prevent people from reporting in the first place.
it's an unimportant website
now THIS is technically embarrassing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-11605365
this is a nuclear powered brand new stealth submarine, giving away its secret propulsion system as the tide lowers, because someone drove it into the beach. stealth beach? (slaps forehead)
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
By making a public display of low security standards - you impact more people.
Could he have told the ONE administrator of the site about the vulnerability, and HOPED that the Sysadmin would take the time out of the day to fix it - and not completely disregard his advice? Yeah, he COULD have done that, but that doesn't guarantee results or get the message to as many people.
Don't get me wrong, we just had to deal with the hooligans ourselves in my company, and it is a bit of a piss off to have to deal with it. However, I can say for a fact we're much better with our security standards now than we ever were before. And on top of that - anyone who finds out might think "Jeez, that kind of stuff is on the rise, maybe I should get to that update I've been sitting on".
It sucks if it happens to you - but its one of those things that seems necessary to keep things in line. I'd rather we be too secure as a society as opposed to being all willy nilly.
"it would take them too much time to change the code...that should have been coded properly to begin with." Fixed that for you.
letting an idiot know they are an idiot is not a game... it's a responsibility. - by Kristopeit, M. D. (1892582)