The cable that put together the hecatomb is here with the controversial sections highlighted and even the header of the website that was also modified, ... Today the #cabledetelam was a trend topic on Twitter due to the alleged "leak" of a cable from the Argentine National News Agency (TELAM) that sought to celebrate the birthday of the country's president (Cristina Kirchner) but that ended up being an embarrassment for journalism, officialdom and politics in general.
The cable that put together the hecatomb is here with the controversial sections highlighted and even the header of the website that was also modified, adding a Nestoranauta, a kind of joke from the popular Argentine comic Eternauta, and an upside-down map.
While everyone was talking about that supposed news and the agency's systems people were trying (several times) to fix the problem and publishing different versions of the "fixed" website, apparently no one stopped (neither now nor ever) to look at the security of the website that among other things has vulnerabilities of Cross Site Scripting (XSS) and SQL Injection (no, I will not give details).
While everything indicates that the "leaked cable" and the change of image was an "internal work", I ask out of curiosity if it would not be possible, with the current security of the site, to upload or modify news in it as it happened in 2005 with the site of the presidency of the nation and that I describe in Viagra.gob.ar: national security issue.
Cristian from the Segu-Info Newsroom
