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Miscreants took advantage of weak security to hack into two NASA-run websites over the weekend. The websites of NASA's Instrument Systems and Technology unit and Software Engineering division were broken into and screenshots illustrating the hack posted online. Hackers appear to have taken advantage of SQL Injection flaws and …

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  1. Liam Johnson

    Climategate

    Probably just looking for NASA climate data to publish...

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Err...

      They publish it all, for free, so probably not.

  2. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
    Flame

    HAH!

    Looking forward to a dump of e-mail messages saying that telemetry from Apollo et al. is "dodgy" and needs "fixing". Then all the deniers can come together under the same banner.

  3. deadlockvictim
    Grenade

    Quiztime everybody

    • What psychiatric disorders will the alleged perpetrators have?

    • What countries will export their citizens to cover up for NASA's technical sloppiness?

    • How many millions worth of "damage" will have been done (aside from embarassment)?

    • What lessons will NASA have learnt from this recent escapade?

    1. Steve Roper
      Go

      Re: Quiztime everybody

      1. Asperger's Syndrome of course - what else?

      2. UK, Australia and New Zealand. These are the puppet states of the US, most other countries won't do this.

      3. $150 m to $2.2 bn depending on the salary of the executive who claims no other company will employ him because of the breach (even though they will of course)

      4. None whatsoever.

      Do I get a prize?

    2. Anonymous Coward
      FAIL

      What lessons will NASA have learnt from this recent escapade?

      Evidently absolutely fuck all....

  4. Carter Cole
    FAIL

    sql injection ftw

    i just peeked at screen shots it looks like it was compromised with sql injection...

    1. Jonathan McComb
      WTF?

      RE: Carter Cole...

      "i just peeked at screen shots it looks like it was compromised with sql injection..."

      You could just have read the article y'know; "Hackers appear to have taken advantage of SQL Injection flaws and poor access controls in mounting the attack...."

    2. Anonymous Coward
      FAIL

      great work sherlock

      the rest of us figured that out by "peeking at" the sentence in the article immediately before the one with the links to the screenshots in it.

      fail yourself.

  5. ElReg!comments!Pierre

    McKinnon?

    Please explain when McKinnon modified or published anything from the computers he accessed. The only thing he did was telling the operator that his system was full of holes. From inside the system. Oh well.

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Alert

    Stop it please

    they are not hackers they are crackers. For the last time hackers modify code to make it better - especially in the early Unix days when they had to write their own drivers. Journos just make this language up.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Troll

      alas...

      Your (correct) usage of the word stopped being the unwashed majority's definition about the same time War Games came out at the cinema (or probably before that... phreaking? i forget).

      So that's at least 20(30?) years where being a hacker has been seen as negative, or at the very least not distinguished from the good sort.

      Compare, if you will, Climategate with the "Hopenhagen" summit hubris/hyperbole.

      Hats off the the brave bloke who went on The One Show to point this out.

      That's democracy for you

      Everyone has the right to be wrong.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      FAIL

      Good thing...

      ... that we have you to defend the honour of the hackers... you twit.

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    How many dollars?

    And how many quadrillion dollars of damage are the US government saying it has caused this time? Mine is the one with a psychiatric self-help book in the pocket entitled, "Unhealthy cynicism; how to live the government approved way."

  8. iamapizza
    Gates Horns

    Holy Onions

    The hacker is using IE! With BING!

  9. Dr Patrick J R Harkin

    The old techniques are the best

    http://xkcd.com/327/

  10. Colin Miller
    FAIL

    Such leet haxors

    They know the how to take an application screenshot, rather than grab the whole screen.

  11. lukewarmdog
    Troll

    Cost of Hacking

    Cost of phoning NASA to tell them they aren't secure - £5 maybe. Cost of demonstrating it.. $220 million and 30 years in prison.

    Bring back the days when an extraordinary rendition meant you'd heard a really good musical performance.

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