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June 12, 2004
Hacked ...
I just got hacked by an automated script that searches vulnerable web servers and defaces them by replacing all existing content with a single iam-a-cool-script-kiddie type of page. There's a site on the Web that tracks all defacements, and you can clearly see that the user of the malicious script racks up at least a single site every minute. Way to go kid! Put that script in an infinite loop and you propel to stardom in no time!!
Doing some research, however, I discovered that Marvoul (the punk behind this attack) is apparently part of a dubious Islamic hacker group called "Digital team" or Q8Crackers. I've compiled a brief intelligence piece on them which you can view here.
Unfortunately, none of my blog entries were backed up and therefore were lost in the process (yes, the script removed all of my www root). Thanks to archive.org, I should be able to recover some of my postings.
Lost due to this malicious attack are all my album pictures and a few other minor web pages which I forgot to properly backup. If there's anything I could thank the script kiddie for it would be the lesson I learnt - BACK UP THE DAMNED DATA AND BACK UP ALL OF IT!
Of course, I will never for the life of me understand the motives behind such random attacks ...
In the mean time, while I work "feverishly" to restore my site, you may check out these pages:
Perl Monks - perl programming wisdom
E-Vris Consulting - consulting business.
Posted by vladb at 02:41 AM | Comments (1)