I woke up this morning to find that Niponster was suspended…
Can you imagine my surprise?And then, to my no small mortification, I opened my email account and found the following from our webhost:
“Hello,We are emailing you to inform you that your account is suspended dueto AUP/TOS violation. We received a notification from our upstream provider [...]
If you missed them (and have way too much time on your hands) here are the other parts 1,2,3 and 4.
I decided to write a part 5 for all of the people coming in from search engines, digg, and reddit who are interested in information about having you site hacked and what you should watch [...]
Ahhhh (sigh of relief)
It feels good to have those pages back!
And… (which makes the minor victory so much sweeter) I was right!
As I eluded to in the first post, the hackers probably did not do any extensive damage to the site. It was beyond simple to fix once I figured out what they did.
This is [...]
We love you Tori!
Tori was able to fix the pages that were hacked. And we rejoiced!
Now to get him to talk about how he fixed it and won us a victory over the hackers…
-Keitaro
(sigh)
I am getting tired.
I think this may be the last post about being hacked (previous posts: part I, part II). I have a lot of information that I have found, and would not mind sharing, but this whole thing is wearing me out…If you want more after this let me know in the comments section [...]
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
(translation: bad news to follow)
In my previous post about being hacked I made some naive assumptions:
The hackers just took advantage of an improper setting in the admin section of the content management system (the system that manages the website; In this case it was phpizabi).
Therefore, magically, it would be easy to fix.
Side note: I [...]
So I was chatting on Instant messenger with James last night and I asked him if he had seen some of the recent changes that I had made on one of our projects under development when he gave me the worst news of my web nerd life…
“Germans Have Hacked Our Site!” <– Turns out that [...]
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