Hacking Attack
└ posted on Friday, 10 April 2009, by Novil
Sandra and Woo and all my other websites have been the targets of a large-scale hacking attack. The attack apparently involved an automatic script which inserted malicious code into all source files on the webspace. To fix the problem, I have changed my passwords, removed all files on the webspace and re-uploaded my local backup. The forum and my other sites should be back online during the next week.
If you have visited Sandra and Woo or any of my other websites on Wednesday or Thursday you should check your system with anti-virus and anti-spyware software.
heh, at least now I know why my anti-virus program popped up when I visited this site the other day. =D
Well, I wasnt sure if I came during the time frame or not, but I did not get anything (unless my anti-virus silently killed the virus)
Hope that didn’t affect Mac computers… o_o;
Keep defend the fort!
Linux may be don’t be affected neither :).
Well, that’s depressing. What were the other sites?
that’s derpessing… good thing i used linux to access this site. if there is anything i can do, say so
i used a wii how do i check for that
I have not heard that there exists a virus which affects the Wii.
Hehehe, thank god for avast. kept getting notices that it was blocking something from this site.
Yeah, my computer caught a level-five virus since my last sweep. Am glad to say the antivirus software did its job and has eliminated it. Cannot say it came from here, but if it did, it didn’t affect my computer.
As to the strip, the color is excellent. A bit confused by the picture as the last caption could be coming either from the character on the far right facing the reader or Woo. If it is coming from the girl, then Woo’s comment is missing. If it comes from Woo, it makes no logical sense.
I’m also confused by what appears to be an elongated finger on Woo. I believe it is something he is holding since it is bent in an unnatural angle.
Also wondering what the grasshopper is for and if there is to be some future reference to him and his cave home.
As you can tell, the old hedgehog has too much time on his paws and must remind himself that this is just a comic strip.
@ Cairn Destop: It`s no grasshopper, it`s a lizard that lost his tail. Woo holds the tail of the lizard in the hand.
do you know about ps3
You know you’re important when someone takes time to hack into your site.
May be, Rocket. Then again these worms also tend to be randomised and automated. Still, it does show the site was getting enough traffic to become a statistical casualty!
And it showed off the effectiveness of my workplace’s new antivirus (lunch breaks are for comics XD) which repeatedly popped up catching and neutering it on each reload… (noscript doing similar via the browser before it even touched the standard AV subsystem when catching up at another point using my home machine)
as much as this must have sucked, please do a bit of reading next time before ranting about hackers. this attack wasn’t the work of a hacker. depending on what the malicious code did and what the motivation to attack your site was one would correctly refer to the idiot who did this as either cracker or script-kiddie.
you really might want to read http://ccc.de/hackerethics?language=en and http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#what_is
Unfortunately Randomguy does have somewhat of a point about hacker ethics. However in defence, not as many people know the difference between hackers and crackers, therefore they get all of the abuse. Heck, until I was educated on the subject, by pissing off a hacker, I thought that cracker was just a rude word to call white guys.
The correct term for everybody who tries to break into other computer systems is hacker. And I have no sympathy for any of them, regardless of their intentions.
Novil wrote:
No, the correct term for that is cracker, regardless of ethics. And I don’t really have any sympathy for them either. (With one exception: those that only do it to their own systems, with the goal of improving the security by finding the bugs and then fixing them. AFAIK, this is a very small minority.)
The term hacker has a history going back to the 1960s at least (in the MIT AI Lab and TMRC), with a completely different meaning that is still in use in the community.
The basic difference is this: hackers build things, crackers break them.
Unfortunately, crackers falsely claim to be hackers loudly enough that most of the media has been fooled and seem to think it’s true; even the Jargon File definition of the term has had to add a section for that meaning (though it’s marked as deprecated, giving the correct term).