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28th June 2007 / 22:28

Tagged: Rambling, Rants, Security, Site

From my error logs today:

/tag/security/protection.php?action=logout &siteurl=hackyfile.txt
/protection.php?action=logout &siteurl=hackyfile.txt
/protection.php?action=logout &siteurl=hackyfile.txt
/protection.php?action=logout &siteurl=hackyfile.txt
/protection.php?action=logout &siteurl=hackyfile.txt
/tag/protection.php?action=logout &siteurl=hackyfile.txt
/tag/phpaskit/page/2/protection.php?action=logout &siteurl=hackyfile.txt
/tag/phpaskit/page/protection.php?action=logout &siteurl=hackyfile.txt
/tag/php/page/2/protection.php?action=logout &siteurl=hackyfile.txt
/tag/php/page/2/protection.php?action=logout &siteurl=hackyfile.txt
/tag/php/page/2/protection.php?action=logout &siteurl=hackyfile.txt

(etc., etc... Each page was done about 4 times, and in total 200 hacky attempts were made)

Dear hackers,

I would have thought that with all the 404s you're getting that you would at least give up. I don't have anything to do with any files called protection.php on my site and scouring every single link trying to hack me is a waste of time.

Go away.

No love,
Me.

Comments (11)

  1. Paul Enderson's Gravatar

    Paul Enderson
    29/06/2007 at 1:56

    Bastards aren't they? ;)

    You realise that they're trying to use an arbitary code execution flaw found in several Codegrrl.com products a couple of years ago?

  2. Amelie's Gravatar

    Amelie
    29/06/2007 at 5:37

    Oh I know very well what they're trying to do... I blogged about it a couple of days ago, hehe.

    Though this proves people are still using those insecure scripts. If this isn't a warning that they'll be hit then I don't know what is...

  3. Paul Enderson's Gravatar

    Paul Enderson
    29/06/2007 at 9:50

    Sometimes it takes something like this to 'scare' people in to reacting to a potential problem that they would otherwise have ignored! ;)

  4. Amber's Gravatar

    Amber
    29/06/2007 at 12:09

    Ah, I remember when my whole server was hacked. I could have cried, especially because I was a fool and didn't have any back-ups.

  5. Julie's Gravatar

    Julie
    30/06/2007 at 0:57

    I realize that Paul has beaten me to what I was going to say. Seeing a file called "protection" immediately made me think of CodeGrrl scripts, since they have (well, had) such a file in their scripts. Maybe you've been associated with them because of PHPAskIt (zomg it's lyke tutally insekiore).

  6. Amelie's Gravatar

    Amelie
    30/06/2007 at 0:58

    ^ zomg yeah i kno!1111111!1one

  7. Jem's Gravatar

    Jem
    30/06/2007 at 22:23

    "If this isn't a warning that they'll be hit then I don't know what is" — people at TFL get hacked using phpFanBase and yet continue installing it. There's no helping some.

  8. Amelie's Gravatar

    Amelie
    30/06/2007 at 22:26

    ^ Yeah, but they're idiots (just those who think PHPFB is awsum!11, not all TFL members).

  9. Matt's Gravatar

    Matt
    1/07/2007 at 0:12

    Eh. That sucks man! Damn hackers >:[

  10. Jane's Gravatar

    Jane
    3/07/2007 at 0:38

    I hate hackers.

    I really don't see the point of them, since they don't gain anything from hacking personal sites.

  11. Shannon's Gravatar

    Shannon
    3/07/2007 at 2:22

    Ug. 200 hacky attempts. Idiotic.

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