Re: [tlug] Tlug Digest, Vol 84, Issue 4

[Benny K <mailinglist@example.com>]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Darren Cook wrote:

> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20677851
>
> "the hacking group accessed some sites by attacking the databases many
> companies use to catalogue and curate website content.
>
> With cleverly crafted queries, attackers can make these databases cough
> up data they should be concealing."
>

Publicly available tools like SQLmap were used. I'm somewhat disappointed.
http://blog.imperva.com/2012/12/teamghostshells-projectwhitefox-analysis.html

Cheers,
B.