There is no such thing as 100% hacker-proof security. Even technology companies with a reputation for building ‘better’ security and privacy into their products—yes, I’m talking about Apple—know this. So, the fact that an Apple platform got hacked isn’t that surprising in the grand scheme of things: the response from the Apple Security team, however, was.when dealing with the hacking of a technology behemoth such as Apple.
Fast-forward to now, and the researchers have explained how they devoted more time to exploring that CMS source code, motivated by the expansive potential attack surface it exposed. After just one week they “stumbled upon several entry points for exploitation,” including a critical SQL injection vulnerability that enabled them to hack the. Read the excellent analysis of the whole procedure at the Project Discovery site if you want the full technical details of how this went down.