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It seems that a group of hackers from Turkey defaced the official UN website Sunday morning. They posted some random text attacking the US and Israel.

The interesting thing about the hack is that it was accomplished using a known and widely disseminated exploit. One that has been around for years. The hack is known as an SQL injection exploit and is accomplished by getting the database to execute SQL code out of input forms.

The vulnerability is easily countered, and these days is seldom found on a large and prominent website. So it is very surprising that an organization as big and important as the UN, would have it’s website vulnerable to an attack like this.

Check out the story at BBC: UN’s website breached by hackers, and for more detail at Hackademix: United Nations VS SQL Injections