All of the hacked websites were hosted and built by the Texas web development firm Netsential on Windows servers located in Houston. They were all running the same custom (and insecure) content management system, developed using Microsoft’s ASP.NET framework in the programming language VBScript, using Microsoft Access databases. Because they all run the same software, if a hacker could find a vulnerability in one of the websites that allowed them to download all the data from it, they could use that vulnerability to hack the rest of the websites without much additional effort.
As much as I believe that China is asshoe, I'm also a software engineer with a decent amount of experience with Microsoft products. Running products written with VBScript in 2020 as good of an idea as driving through slick roads with a 95 Explorer. It wouldn't take a genius to breach these systems.
Trump is right to slash regulations. There's a lot of gooberment operations that run on Windows XP because "muh regulations" prevent any half-competent IT guy from coming in and upgrading shit.
This is an excellent article.
Strongly suggest you read it.
The data breach includes things like cops trying to track down antifa terrorists.
Wonder if this a CCP attack on all our data infrastructure?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-46096768
Just recently China was caught hacking Australia's systems.
As much as I believe that China is asshoe, I'm also a software engineer with a decent amount of experience with Microsoft products. Running products written with VBScript in 2020 as good of an idea as driving through slick roads with a 95 Explorer. It wouldn't take a genius to breach these systems.
Trump is right to slash regulations. There's a lot of gooberment operations that run on Windows XP because "muh regulations" prevent any half-competent IT guy from coming in and upgrading shit.
That's not good.