Making Tracks Site has been seriously "Hacked"

[Iluka]

Hi Matt

Just thought I should mention that the MT site has been hacked - you get a large screen with a message along the lines:-

"Hey Stupid Coder" and then some drivel about Iran

Regards

Mike

[desiro5]

oh dear. really sorry to see this. hope it can be recovered.

[Iluka]

The reason I posted this is that there is a key word "Activities" in the jargon so I hope this idiot is not going to try and hack UKTS and TS.com

It really makes my blood boil with this sort of thing going on

Regards

Mike

[desiro5]

This guy has already hacked 8,000 sites.

hes not a proper hacker, hes a guy who exploits security flaws in websites with scripts.

[Daniel1983]

I hope they sort it out. and block him

[champy]

They have been made aware and it seems its only the external part of the site and not the forums. I can still access through my 'reply to thread' emails, It should all be sorted by late tonight.
Shame people actually do this for fun, and they say that people into trains are sad!

Jon

[Iluka]

Great News

The MT Site is back up and operating

Regards

Mike

[Lad491]

oh and I missed it

Im glad it was easily fixed and didnt cause too much damage
People who do such things should be locked up.

[Daniel1983]

Good!

[jbilton]

...... and they say that people into trains are sad!

Jon

No thats just to you Jon........

Cheers
Jon

[buffy500]

Proving that having decent backups is a good starting point we're back in under 2 hours.

The host has had some kind of problem which probably effected all sites hosted by them, not much we can do about it other than repair the damage.

[ralph0chadkirk]

This guy has already hacked 8,000 sites.

hes not a proper hacker, hes a guy who exploits security flaws in websites with scripts.

That more or less IS a hacker.

[gswindale]

It's a type of hacker - the basic and the outcast of the hacking community.

I've dabbled with a bit of hacking in my time - all of it legitimately.

[NeutronIC]

The term more often used is "script kiddie"

(sorry punctuation delete etc all sorts of keys just stopped working will investigate after this message!!!)

A "hacker" is someone who can understand systems and work out the exploits understand what the problems might be and then how he (or she) might use them to their own advantage Frequently a hacker then releases tools to quickly leverage those hacks

Script Kiddies then use those hacking scripts to repeatedly blast lots of sites makes them feel really good about themselves really big and in fact they understand next to zero about what is going on quite frequently

The Joomla hack was just a script kiddie using a script that a clever hacker came up with

Matt

[ianmacmillan]

The term more often used is "script kiddie"

That's not the term I would use.


But I don't want to be banned.