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October 05, 2005 at 12:58 pm
Hacked...
The last twenty-eight hours, or so, have been rather stressful, as I’ve been trying to reassemble my website after being hacked. Thankfully, my webhost had a recent backup of my site and were (fairly) quick to restore it.
This isn’t the first time my site has been deleted by hackers either. It also happened to my music site back in May 2004. At that time, I wasn’t sure if my webhost would be able to restore a backup, but they came through for me in the end. And, while this time was a bit maddening, as well, I knew that some sort of backup would be found.
Anyway, since restoring the site, I’ve taken a few measures to improve security around here.
I lost one post (a good one too) because of this little annoyance — plus a handful of comments. Maybe I’ll attempt a repost of the lost post at some point (along with the comments I received via e-mail), but I’m not completely sure yet.
The hackers left a calling card in the form of two index files in the root of my site. Here’s what they said:
A n o m a l y 1 n t h e S y s t e m C r E WNice, eh?
i S B A C K ! ! !O O O . . . W W W . . . N N N . . . E E E . . . D D D . . .
We are:
V4mu <*> S0l4r1s <*> paulinhu <*> r3ckd4ll <*> magicNeed help ? #A1TS on irc.gigachat.net
Anyway, I hope they won’t bother me anymore.
In the meantime, I took the opportunity to do some cleanup on my server. I decided not to put my Photoblog back up (the new one or the old one), because I’m posting photos primarily on Flickr now. Because of this, there may be some broken links on some of my older posts, but I figure I can deal with that later (let me know if you find anything crucial).
Ugh.
I’m done for the day.
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Yeah, Wheat… Well, I think so. Until just recently, “Register Globals” was set to ON in my php.ini file… I’m pretty sure that’s the only major security flaw that I had when all of this happened. I’m not completely sure exactly what they did, though. That item is now set to OFF, so we’ll see.
I went into Bloglines, selected to view all old posts (yeah, I monitor my own blog!), got the permalink and googled it. The cached version was a dream!
This time, the hack happened before Google had time to Cache the lost post/comments.
