[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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