US Ports Targeted with Zero-Day SQL Injection Flaw

Well, that is really not good as any threat or opening for damage to a country's key infrastructure is likely to hit many hard should the miscreants strike. Have to assume that this is foreign government sanctioned/sourced as it would be hard to understand what the lowly miscreant has to gain from this sort of potential attack. Scary! 

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Well, that is really not good as any threat or opening for damage to a country's key infrastructure is likely to hit many hard should the miscreants strike. Have to assume that this is foreign government sanctioned/sourced as it would be hard to understand what the lowly miscreant has to gain from this sort of potential attack. Scary! 

Unfortunately, Baldrick, I feel that it is only a matter of time before some foreign entity is able to successfully cause a catastrophic breach to any number of the systems that we depend upon. Given that the badly needed improvements to our infrastructure seem to be a very low priority for our political class. They are much more interested in pacifying their powerful donors. And given that many of our most vital systems are still operating on antiquated hardware nearly 50 years old, it's really not a matter of "if" but "when". :(
 
bd