12th Sep 2007
I got hacked
Thanks my man from a far away country that can’t speak English very well!
You’ve saved me and my other email clients hours of reading their delightful email today. You’ve also saved hundreds of people from viewing my boring (but helpful) blog articles and downloading my applications.
A little background
Between 9am and 3pm today, jc21.com was hacked. Someone abused the scripts hosted on this site and found a way to remove and upload files to the server. A large number of key files were deleted, and if I wasn’t friends with my hosting provider I’d still be up the creek without a paddle.
The index page was replaced with a very disgusting one, basically saying that it’s my fault I got hacked, and that the person(s) responsible only hack sites like mine to help me be more secure. You know, to make me aware of the fact.
You’re such a pro!
The mere fact that you’ve hacked my site is an achievement to be sure, but surely if you know that much you would know how to create an index page in something other than Microsoft Word?! I mean, you want respect from your peers right?
That’s why you do this?
It can’t be for my benefit, otherwise you would have used the contact form I had hosted before you deleted it. Shouldn’t I be entitled to know? And in fact, now that I look at it, if you had said to me “I can hack your site, and I can prove it,” I may have even paid you to tell me how you did it and how I can fix it. Furthermore, you may have even earned a recommendation - but you wanted to remain anonymous. Now you have earned my disrespect.
It could have been worse you say?
Worse than having ALL of my email deleted, all of my hosted email accounts removed and half of my sub-domains destroyed? You didn’t touch the Mysql tables thankfully, I guess that comes under the same guidelines as above regarding your knowledge.
And yes, I’ve got backups - but they’ve probably got vulnerabilities.
Final Thoughts
For my benefit - apparently. But you don’t even tell me HOW YOU DID IT! How am I meant to learn if you won’t teach? You’re a loser and you have no friends. Get of the internet and get a real job. Get a girlfriend. Get a life.
jc21.com is not hosting anything more than this blog for a while. I have neither the urge or inclination to do anything more. It’s funny how one person can ruin it for others (or not funny, if you’re one of the others).
It’s my fault I know, I take the risk of using script based applications on my server. But like I’ve already said, I’m not going to know any different, even now.
If you’re after Ajax File Browser, it’s still going to be available on Sourceforge.
Thanks my man from a far away country that can’t speak English very well!
You’ve saved me and my other email clients hours of reading their delightful email today. You’ve also saved hundreds of people from viewing my boring (but helpful) blog articles and downloading my applications.
A little background
Between 9am and 3pm today, jc21.com was hacked. Someone abused the scripts hosted on this site and found a way to remove and upload files to the server. A large number of key files were deleted, and if I wasn’t friends with my hosting provider I’d still be up the creek without a paddle.
The index page was replaced with a very disgusting one, basically saying that it’s my fault I got hacked, and that the person(s) responsible only hack sites like mine to help me be more secure. You know, to make me aware of the fact.
You’re such a pro!
The mere fact that you’ve hacked my site is an achievement to be sure, but surely if you know that much you would know how to create an index page in something other than Microsoft Word?! I mean, you want respect from your peers right?
That’s why you do this?
It can’t be for my benefit, otherwise you would have used the contact form I had hosted before you deleted it. Shouldn’t I be entitled to know? And in fact, now that I look at it, if you had said to me “I can hack your site, and I can prove it,” I may have even paid you to tell me how you did it and how I can fix it. Furthermore, you may have even earned a recommendation - but you wanted to remain anonymous. Now you have earned my disrespect.
It could have been worse you say?
Worse than having ALL of my email deleted, all of my hosted email accounts removed and half of my sub-domains destroyed? You didn’t touch the Mysql tables thankfully, I guess that comes under the same guidelines as above regarding your knowledge.
And yes, I’ve got backups - but they’ve probably got vulnerabilities.
Final Thoughts
For my benefit - apparently. But you don’t even tell me HOW YOU DID IT! How am I meant to learn if you won’t teach? You’re a loser and you have no friends. Get of the internet and get a real job. Get a girlfriend. Get a life.
jc21.com is not hosting anything more than this blog for a while. I have neither the urge or inclination to do anything more. It’s funny how one person can ruin it for others (or not funny, if you’re one of the others).
It’s my fault I know, I take the risk of using script based applications on my server. But like I’ve already said, I’m not going to know any different, even now.
If you’re after Ajax File Browser, it’s still going to be available on Sourceforge.
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