[wellylug] My website cracked
Cliff Pratt
enkidu at cliffp.com
Sun Jan 16 15:33:56 NZDT 2005
Wayne Koorts wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> www.wkoorts.com
>
> I haven't been updating my website for some time (3 months?). It's
> supposed to come up with my siteman CMS based website. I last loaded
> the page about a week ago. It was still fine then. Now this comes
> up. I immediately ftp'd into the server (it's not hosted by me - it's
> space that we rent) and checked a few things out. It looks like they
> haven't actually done much damage. Nothing deleted or anything like
> that.
>
> Would they have broken into my account on the ftp server? Could it
> just have been a vulnerability in Siteman?
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
Well, I presume that this is a shared server? In which case,
your site may not have been the one that they hacked into.
If they *own* the machine they own *all* the sites on that
machine.
Cheers,
Cliff
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