I doubt they were from egypt. The javascript variables were in Spanish and the img tags were pointing to a site in San Diego, California.
I doubt they were from egypt. The javascript variables were in Spanish and the img tags were pointing to a site in San Diego, California.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
The page that they hacked said they were "3gypti@n." I don't think where they host their images would tell much, and generally the people who crack message boards are not hackers. They probably found the dork and the code to hack the page on some website like milw0rm... it may have been written by somebody who is Spanish, but not necessarily used by a Spanish person.
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Because they can. Someone else actually did all the work finding exploits in popular web services and script based tools, like vbulletin. All the information is made public for several reasons, being one of them help the authors fix it.
Then someone with nothing to do, wanting to impress friends and strangers takes the information and goes about their business. As long as they only deface websites, as these two(?) did, it's a favor they are doing you. However, more often than one would like, they go about trashing all files in the website, deleting them, changing accounts, whatever.
VBulletin has a considerable amount of I've been hacked posts. Mostly not to do with vB own scripts, but with mods, or forgetting to delete installation scripts. That's probably how they go in. However, they did deface index.php all across the cprogramming.com domain. So, I'm curious how they did it and if they gained the ability to write/overwrite .htaccess.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.