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According to the Department of Homeland Security, since 2005, MT has only had 10 reported security vulnerabilities, as compared to Wordpress’ 100+
Written by pinolobu on June 15th, 2008 with no comments.
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Wordpress is arguably the most popular blogging platform. Hence, it’s a give that it has become a popular target for blackhat hackers.
The intentions are usually search-engine optimization (SEO) of other sites the bad guys control, as well as traffic-redirection and more.
And recently there were many automated attacks which exploited recently discovered security vulnerabilities in Wordpress.
Most damning, while usually Wordpress was able to keep up, in the past few days “new exploits have appeared that nobody seems to have answers for.”
Written by pinolobu on June 15th, 2008 with no comments.
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The PM announced price hikes in petrol and diesel prices on 4th of June 2008. As a result, by the next day the website of the Prime Minister’s Office was apparently defaced by disgruntled person(s).
Upon closer inspection however, it seems to be a remote file inclusion attack, taking advantage of a Lotus Domino vulnerability, on which platform the website is running, meaning the attacker was not able to execute commands on the server, else it would have been worse.
As of now though, if you still follow the “hacked link” it will not be accessible anymore.
Quite interesting: the “manifesto” seems to have been modified since then, to include the following text:
A special officer to Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi confirmed the incident and said it was an “unsuccessful hacking attempt“. “What happened is that someone copied the URL (the site’s address) and cloned it to make it look like the real site. Special Officer? There is nothing special about you just the same as the rest of those lazy adminz. UBAH GAYA HIDUP … Lancau ahh
Written by pinolobu on June 6th, 2008 with no comments.
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