O Street/ Exotic websites hacked

[int19]

Just was checking out to see if I could find out O street's hours and...
Found out that both O Street and Exotic's websites are hacked. :(

Tried calling but couldn't get anyone on the phone. If anyone knows their contact info, it'd be good to pass it along in case they aren't aware :)

Thanks,
Richard

[funman1]

Holy Crap!!!
That's crazy!!

Here's the pic of O Street
http://www.jbflops.com/hacked.jpg

[robertloop]

:lol: I'm only laughing because it's not my system........

[Sparkss]

obviously someone has too much free time :(. I wonder why they targetted those web sites ?

[Reefugee]

Tom -

People generally don't target specific vendor's website for hacking. Most of these hacking jobs are "oppertunistic" hacking. They hack these sites because the site is poorly configured. Usually the system admin has not patched a vulnerability or have poor password setting.

At work, my network probably get scanned thousands of times a day for vulnerabilities. This may sound scary - but I found that an unpatched system hooked up to the internet can get infected with a virus in as short as 5 seconds. This test was repeated multiple times!

Minh

[mothra]

Bummer. I was surprised to find my business website hacked a couple of years ago. When I visited the site a picture of Che Guevara was there. Just like Minh said, I wasn't a specific target. They found a way to exploit my host's sever and hacked about 500 sites. Luckily for me nothing malicious was done to the files that were in my directories but it was still a pain the behind. I switched hosts and never looked back :)

[thereefgeek]

I'm glad Minh is our Webmaster. He was pretty paranoid about security for the MARS and WMC pages, and I guess it's very justified in this day and age of bored punk a$$ teenagers.

[stabruciandosi]

hey! i was one of those borred punk teens, and minh, the mars site was so annoying to hack. good work

[Justin74]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6823771#post6823771 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by stabruciandosi
hey! i was one of those borred punk teens, and minh, the mars site was so annoying to hack. good work
:worried:

-Justin

[Reefugee]

FYI: The hacking could be either the webmasters fault or the hosting company fault. If the webmaster had insecure code, that could be a vector of compromise. And if the hosting company failed to adequately secure (firewall and patched) their computer, then that could be another avenue for hacking.

Why am I telling you that? Because if the MARS website every get hacked, I can blame it on the hosting company. oh wait... that's me...

[BenH98]

I tried to look at the website, and it seems like it is back to normal now.