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If we can subvert computers running databases (think healthcare, insurance companies, the IRS, etc) then isn’t it time to shut down the internet? People can’t have nice things. I think this is proof that we are in hell. There is a god and she is watching from the other side. Well, I take it back. Keep the infrastructure so that the ISPs and broadcasters can keep taking our money but make it like tv used to be - one w…
It's amazing that in 2018 people leave databases publicly exposed.
If we can subvert computers running databases (think healthcare, insurance companies, the IRS, etc) then isn’t it time to shut down the internet? People can’t have nice things. I think this is proof that we are in hell. There is a god and she is watching from the other side. Well, I take it back. Keep the infrastructure so that the ISPs and broadcasters can keep taking our money but make it like tv used to be - one w…
This reads like something out of /r/insanepeoplefacebook
Who has to run the Postgres database?
In what kind of way does it has to be accessed to get this happening?
Are we talking about web apps that use Postgres on the back end and run arbitrary queries?
Are we talking about people who somehow extract the Postgres database username and password and it has admin permissions?
I wasn't sure what's happening.
If we can subvert computers running databases (think healthcare, insurance companies, the IRS, etc) then isn’t it time to shut down the internet? People can’t have nice things. I think this is proof that we are in hell. There is a god and she is watching from the other side. Well, I take it back. Keep the infrastructure so that the ISPs and broadcasters can keep taking our money but make it like tv used to be - one w…
But how would an unsuspecting user run the executable? Perhaps I missed this, but is there some image viewer or browser that runs the trailing bytes of images?
Ironically unavailable due to an "error establishing a database connection".