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Re:TalkTalk cyber-attack: boy, 15, arrested in Northern Ireland by 0942v8653 on Monday October 26, 2015 @04:42PM (#10454324)
Just because they "write all of [their] sql by hand" doesn't mean they will be vulnerable to an attack as simple as this. This is just pure and unmitigated incompetence.
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Re:TalkTalk cyber-attack: boy, 15, arrested in Northern Ireland by tsotha on Monday October 26, 2015 @06:13PM (#10454866)
Yes. Preventing SQL injection attacks is very, very easy. To have something like that in your code in 2015 is inexcusable.
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