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Harvesting clients information from the utility company

A security expert explains how it is possible to hack the service provided by a utility company raising serious security and privacy issues. Elsio Pinto created a lab using virtual machines and using projects available on Github, to prove his point that the utility company website could be exploited. He created a script to test the created website that simulates the companys website: The script alters the range of account numbers that we would like to test. The most likely thing to happen would be that an attacker would harvest the entire customer database using a script with a simple algorithm.”]

Source: http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/37553/hacking/hacking-utility-company-db.html

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