Two new (one "critical") Ruby on Rails vulnerabilities
Two new (one "critical") Ruby on Rails vulnerabilities
Posted Jan 10, 2013 10:32 UTC (Thu) by ovitters (guest, #27950)Parent article: Two new (one "critical") Ruby on Rails vulnerabilities
Dutch government requires DigiD if a citizen wants to login to a government website (any). DigiD apparently uses Ruby on Rails, so they took the entire DigiD offline. As a result, you could not login anymore. Meaning: you could not handle anything government related issue electronically. Whoops :P
One of the various Dutch articles about this:
http://nos.nl/artikel/459883-digid-onbereikbaar-na-lek.html