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Comment by whyleyc | Hacker News Reader

So I did a bit of digging and found the website in question:

http://www.mythaichicago.com/default.asp

Looks like they're still experiencing "issues" - http://www.mythaichicago.com/order.asp?locationid=000004 reports:

  "Sorry, On-line ordering is currently undergoing service."

No clear indicator who the web design company behind it is though.

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How did you dig that one backwards... ? As far as I could tell you only had an image of the site.....?

Screenshot + TinEye?

Yep just from images (and Google) - I examined one of the images from the post at a higher resolution (by clicking on it) and took a look at the map on the right-hand side.

It was a map of Thailand, so that gave me the type of restaurant. From there it was just a simple Google query combining that knowledge with the URL structure revealed in the blog post:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=thai+restaurant+locationid%...

Then it was just a case of working through the list of possibilities (it was second on that list) :-)

Good searching. Looks like you've found quite a few more vulnerable sites too.

I would wager to say a large majority of .asp sites out there are vulnerable to these types of issues.

Most were coded before common sanitization and security practices were observed during dev, not to mention built in to frameworks.

http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Amenu.asp%3Flocationid...

Obviously he just zoomed in and kept saying "enhance image" to his computer until the answer was revealed in a tiny shadow on one of the pixels...

Damn this thing and it's ability to only upvote once!

Very interesting. This is one of my favorite lunch spots; the people that actually run the restaurant are a friend of a friend, and they are super-nice. Too bad they got caught up in this.

The one by DePaul is a block away from our office.

>No clear indicator who the web design company behind it is though.

At least the content isn't hidden behind a wall of Flash.

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