lederhosen: (Default)
lederhosen ([personal profile] lederhosen) wrote2008-04-23 05:43 pm

Not such a good idea

Via RISKS:

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections published a web interface where the URL contained the SQL query executed to retrieve the data to be reported. Thus, any knowledgeable user could execute general SQL queries against a database containing large amounts of personal information -- including UPDATE statements (!) It was taken down only after management was shown that THEIR personal information was available.