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March 02, 2004
Site Defaced by Badboy
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This is kind of neat. This site got hacked by someone named 'Badboy'. If this were a commercial site, I might be more concerned, but as it is it turned into an interesting exercise.
The site wasn't really comprimised, just the front page was altered. I suppose a good hacker could have done much worse, so it looks like Badboy is more of a 'white hat' than a 'black hat' - which is to say I imagine that he's just pointing out a lack of security in order to encourage me to hire him to tighten it up.
I would have contacted him but he didn't leave his email address. I followed the link to his web site, but it was all in Portuguese (I think) and I didn't bother with a babelfish translation.
When using a popular platform such as PHP-Nuke, there are always more security risks than when using an obscure one or writing it yourself. The publishing content delivery mechanisms that I've written myself have yet to be compromised.
The message below is what was deposited on the home page:
Site defaced by:
»._.«´¯))((¯`»._.«¦¤¦ bâdbóÿ¦¤¦»._.«´¯))((¯`»._.«¦¤¦ bâdbóÿ¦¤¦»._.«´¯))
((¯`»._.«¦¤¦ http://www.badboyinc.vze.com ¦¤¦»._.«´¯))
You have an insecure system, if you want to learn how to avoid this actions, contact me.
--------Posted by mslaybau at March 2, 2004 06:05 AM
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