Ruby On Rails SQL Injection Flaw Has Serious Real-Life Consequences

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday January 9, 2013 @04:35AM from the should-have-used-cobol dept.

vikingpower writes "As a previous Slashdot story already reported, Ruby on Rails was recently reported to suffer from a major SQL injection flaw. This has prompted the Dutch government to take the one and only national site for citizens' digital identification offline (link in Dutch, Google translation to English). Here is the English-language placeholder page for the now-offline site. This means that 16 million Dutch citizens cannot authenticate themselves anymore with government instances, and that those same government instances can not communicate anything to those same citizens anymore." Fixes were released, so it looks like it's on their sysadmin team now.

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Rockstars wanted by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-09 04:40 · Score: 0, Funny

That's all.
So? by Big+Hairy+Ian · 2013-01-09 04:46 · Score: 1, Funny

16Mileon Dutch people cant authenticate? Smoke them if you've got them.

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