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Apache sites scalped by hack

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Duh!

Gimme your password of the Inq, lets see how fast we can hack it and your Internet Exploder users....

And this is called hacking? Duh!
posted by : Bas, 22 January 2008

Exactly: Duh!

Okay,

1. Some sniffer or greatly (maybe not even?) influential "hacker?" uses a little social engineering to nix your creds.

2. Sniffer "hacker?" uses those creds to bump in as a root like user and does his/her dance all over you Apache box.

3. Site admins notice this and re-do everything and the problem still persists.

4. Repeat step 2-3 for every Apache server admin that got "hacked?" and never changed their creds.

Are peeps seriously that short on the stick of knowledge to not change your password after you've been smacked once (your own fault in the 1st place)? Honestly its such a simple concept a child knows how to do it... some one figures out the combination to you lock on your school locker, what do you do? stand there and watch them punters continuously dive into your locker or get the thing changed, but your web developer/professional(s) right?

Def(s): "hacker?" "hacked?" What part of this is hacking, honestly I do not consider social engineering "hacking" (well maybe brain hacking), neither are script kitty's.

What about Internet Exploder Bas? so does anyone know how to adjust security settings, or are we just click and go... bsd.
posted by : P!NG, 22 January 2008

Not just for Linux

Linux based? Come on, Nick, you can do better than that! Apache is certainly associated with Linux, but it has run on Windows for years. I think you meant "open source".
posted by : Tom Welsh, 23 January 2008

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