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  • Thinkbeta.com Subject to PHP Hack

    Posted on June 7th, 2009 admin 12 comments

    OK boys and girls, a hacker/bot has managed to scramble the php code for both this blog and our class Moodle instance. I’ve got an email into Arthur for assistance in unscrambling the aftermath. I’ve checked what code I can and haven’t been able to ascertain where the malicious code has been planted. We may have to struggle the remainder of the week with what we have.

    BTW, the tech boards are silent on this issue, for both Wordpress-engined blogs and Moodle. There is lots of chatter about BestBuy having a short online only Windows 7 upgrade program starting Jun 16 for $49+ for Home, and $99+ for the Ultimate edition. I installed RC1 yesterday on my boomer and other than some flash plugin issues with FF, it’s running fine. [And Ubuntu seems to want to stretch off both sides of the 24" monitor to the extent the entire screen cannot be seen for installation. Bummer.]

     

    12 responses to “Thinkbeta.com Subject to PHP Hack”

    1. so much for “bullet-proof”

    2. hmm this is not cool

    3. Wordpress is generally pretty solid on its protection against SQL injection, but I’ve never tested (read “tried to get into”) a moodle system before. Judging from the fact that your WP header is now loaded with keywords and links, it seems more like the work of a bot to me. Why your blog was a target is beyond me though.

    4. Any word from the Web Host provider?

    5. I would be interested to see what part of the code was affected and what changes were necessary to fix it. My classes this past semester focused a lot on coding and solving problems related to that code. I found it both very interesting and challenging task to solve code related issues. Despite the challenges I enjoyed the task of debugging various programs.

    6. Seems like the spam keeps on getting longer and longer on the homepage. Good thing there is only a week left in this class, otherwise there might have been some issues. Also, Good thing that we don’t really have any important information on this site. It’s basically just our names and email addresses.

    7. Who hacks a site like this and whats the point? At least we can still read what we need to and get things done like normal, it just looks wierd at the top.

    8. Lee Rodriguez

      This sucks!

    9. was good while it lasted good luck fixing it

    10. Alex Faulkner

      Is the crazy text all the hack did? Thats lame.

    11. ==Jingle-Heimmer Schmidt

      If you seek hackers…

    12. If you seek hackers..

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