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Teenage hackers shut down a PHP cloud hosting firm
A COUPLE of 16-year old hackers had their wicked way exploiting a security vulnerability recently that allowed one of them to steal and publish a PHP cloud hosting firm's proprietary source code on Twitter.
On his company's blog, PHP Fog founder and CEO Lucas Carlson described how an Australian called 'Eliot' and an American called 'John' embarked on a competition to see who could deface Carlson's website the fastest.
Carlson said that 'John' gave instructions to 'Eliot' to break into PHP Fog's shared hosting environment. The PHP Fog boss admitted he made it easy when he "unfortunately and stupidly" had an old copy of the company's code on the server that had PHP Fog's system passwords on it, which it had not deleted or changed. Oops.
'Eliot' posted the old codebase, PHP Fog's intellectual property, on Twitter. That must have been a lot of 140 character messages!
Carlson's blog post goes on to say that he shut down PHP Fog because of this malarky, booted 'Eliot' off the system and then rebooted the servers. Apparently annoyed, the hacker then proceeded to log into PHP Fog's Twitter account, blog and DNS manager, pointing phpfog.com to a website called "PHPFog sucks".
Later on, 'Eliot' allegedly tried to apologise in an Instant Message, saying, "I don't want any hard feelings between us, this originally started as a proof of concept to prove your platform was insecure. I guess I did that, but there are better ways I could have gone about it." µ
Tags: Security
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you can always tell when young people are dealing in lots of drugs and know when the money's on the table because they get real quiet and stay indoors like they're hiding out.
I'm impressed that their code is under 140 characters.
THE IRONY IS THAT PHP FOG ACTUALLY DOES SUCK.
YOU MAY ASK, HOW CAN THE CLOUD SUCK? ITS BECAUSE OF A WEATHER INVERSION THATS HOW.
SO MANY PEOPLE FOCUS ON THE NEGATIVE, MAYBE I'LL BE THE ONE TO BUCK THAT TREND.
WELL DONE LADS, SHUD OF ACTIVATED A HARDWARE DESTRUCTION SEQUENCE THO. THERE ARE WAYS TO DO IT.
IN THE 1980S I TOOK DOWN AN ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL COMMODORE PET COMPUTER LAB WITH A ROUTINE THAT RAPIDLY CHANGED VIDEO STATES. BY THE TIME MR. ----- CAME BACK FROM LUNCH THE WHOLE LAB WAS ENGULFED IN SMOKE, HAR HAR!
JAIL TIME WAS TOO GOOD FOR ME, HO HO.