Bah - hacky kids
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Bah - hacky kids
One of my domains got hacked over the weekend - it looks like a script was used to replace anything with 'index.' in the filename with his lovely alternate version (work safe, but plays music).
Do you think I should report it? If so - who the hell do I report it to?
Do you think I should report it? If so - who the hell do I report it to?
- Chris Corbyn
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Re: Bah - hacky kids
Report it to your web host.Grim... wrote:Do you think I should report it? If so - who the hell do I report it to?
Is this a shared host? Make sure all the other thousands of users on the same server don't have access to your stuff. If it's a VDS or dedicated server first change your passwords immediately, make sure you have no stupid accounts with names like "test, password=test". Then upgrade what you can. Check your logs for access times and IP addresses and see if you can trace where this come from. Maybe even see if they left what they did in .bash_history.
Re: Bah - hacky kids
Yeah, I did that straight away. It looks like they went in via my FTP account, nothing else on the server was touched.d11wtq wrote:Report it to your web host.
Is this a shared host? Make sure all the other thousands of users on the same server don't have access to your stuff.
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So you'll have changed your password thenGrim... wrote:Yeah, I did that straight away. It looks like they went in via my FTP account, nothing else on the server was touched.d11wtq wrote:Report it to your web host.
Is this a shared host? Make sure all the other thousands of users on the same server don't have access to your stuff.
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I remember back in the day when I used to run PHP-Nuke websites, they used to get hacked into every other week.
I can't understand why people would spend time and effort doing something to annoy someone else when they have nothing against them - obviously the reason is "just because they can", but they could also have spent that time clearing the streets from rubbish rather than hacking websites.
I can't understand why people would spend time and effort doing something to annoy someone else when they have nothing against them - obviously the reason is "just because they can", but they could also have spent that time clearing the streets from rubbish rather than hacking websites.
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The answer to that question should be self evident - which is more fun, picking up half eaten kebabs or engaging in a battle of technical aptitude with a website designer?jayshields wrote:I can't understand why people would spend time and effort doing something to annoy someone else when they have nothing against them - obviously the reason is "just because they can", but they could also have spent that time clearing the streets from rubbish rather than hacking websites.
Anyhow, what was the original content of this site, that it attracted such a hacker?