Oh, HacK!!!!

[ed4copies]

Is it a world-record hack???

So says the hacker!! Sunday it was 10,000 sites, by Sunday night the claim grew to 70,000---now it has reached a WORLD RECORD: SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND SITES hacked!!!!!

So, is it a world record hack or a world record EXAGGERATION!!! We don't know, but our sites are back up, so we can only claim to be "unknowing participants" in this attempted record-setting fiasco!!

The hacker claims to be from Bangladesh---must have a heck of a IT training program in those schools!!

(Fertile fields for new employees, Jeff!!)

Read more here, if you like:http://thehackernews.com/2011/09/inmotion-hosting-server-and-trinity-fm.html

 

[Fibonacci]

Given the descriptions given there compared to what I have seen elsewhere, this barely qualifies as a hack.

He/she/it may be a very talented hacked, but getting minimal access to one system is not very impressive.

 

[Florida Marine]

I'd go after your hosting service - do they have SLA's?

This was probably kiddie script level of penetration, that should have been patched for.

 

[Seer]

Kiddie script anyone with opposing thumbs could do it

 

[ed4copies]

Apparently he was motivated by QUANTITY, rather than QUALITY----Thankfully, from our point of view!!

 

[jasontg99]

but getting minimal access to one system is not very impressive.

You are complaining about not having your information stolen???:bulgy-eyes:

 

[Rob73]

I think media throw around the term 'hack' to easily these days. Same with virus -- everything is a 'trojan' now days. I would agree with Seer, bunch of script kiddies with no real skills .

 

[Florida Marine]

Apparently he was motivated by QUANTITY, rather than QUALITY----Thankfully, from our point of view!!

Not saying it is, but a lot of times things like these are a ruse for the real intent, which may have been to drop malicious code into a specific site and wait until its needed for something.

Your host company must be pretty lax at patching their hosting servers to have been open to a compromise of this scale - or had some inside help for the hackers to tell them about the vulnerability.

 

[xxShadowxx]

screw classes, if you have internet you can learn anything
proof - i taught myself programming :biggrin: http, php, asp, c++, vb.net, more
in many cases the internet outdoes classes by having tons of examples, videos, cut&paste material, etc
do i know everything? no, but friends with a $300k/yr jobs come to me when stuck

 

[bitshird]

Just remember at one time Kevin Mitnick was a script kiddie, but then he grew up, The man is the daddy of all hackers.

 

[ragz]

For the hacker savvy...
Capt Crunch was one of the forefathers of hackers and also wrote beneficial code while serving a jail term

 

[workinforwood]

I did not get hacked. My website is a fortress open for your viewing pleasure, although I haven't updated it in so long you can hear the crickets singing. Had to renew service yesterday, forgot how expensive it is, I need to work more on this situation some day. I need 60 hrs to be a day.