Security News > 2016 > May > Researcher demonstrates website’s lax security, gets arrested (Help Net Security)
2016-05-09 20:53
David Levin, CTO of pentesting company Vanguard Cybersecurity, has made a critical mistake while testing the security of the Lee County (Florida) elections website: he accessed and used usernames and passwords of employees in the elections office in order to see what other information he could access – all without official permission. He accessed the info by performing simple SQL injections via Havij, a freely available SQL injection tool. But what perhaps irritated officials even … More →
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