Another attempted hack

[daveb47]

Had another attempted hack by someone with an ip address in the ukraine today.

Caught it and stopped it but just to let you know that i will be changing passwords & hardening server this evening which means that i will be rebooting it several times so there will be short periods of downtime,shouldnt be more than 5 minutes a time.

 

[Bobthebeard]

Ok... Thank goodness you are on the ball. We are grateful Dave. Many thanks!

[Tamworthbay]

Does that mean I still need to send a payment to your Nigerian Uncle or not? It's just that my unknown relatives inheritance has come at just the right time and need to get the release fee to him asap.

[daveb47]

Does that mean I still need to send a payment to your Nigerian Uncle or not? It's just that my unknown relatives inheritance has come at just the right time and need to get the release fee to him asap.

Its now double..............

[Tamworthbay]

Its now double..............

cheers mate, I will get it off to him straight away, he is such a nice chap.

[Hertz]

We had an outbreak of this Ransomware virus at work this week, scary stuff.

 

Keep up the good work Dave!

[Barry Cade]

Had another attempted hack by someone with an ip address in the ukraine today.

 

Don't be so hasty, maybe he has a barn full of Zazophorets, or a concept FSO convertible, and a poor grasp of English.

[Split_Pin]

Nice one DB47, we would be stuffed without you. Thanks for your hard work.

[Guest Breadvan72]

What would the ransom be for Autoshite?  A quid? 

 

Seriously though, thanks Dave, you are epic.

[Twiggy]

You`re a star ! Thank you.

[EssDeeWon]

Well done Dave, we all owe you a beer, and that would be ALOT of beer!

[Bobthebeard]

This hacking malarkey, why do they do it? Is it just for fun? Teenage geeky herberts having a go etc?

Don't understand....

[Parky]

Can we hack them back and change their screensaver to a picture of a Laguna 2 with steam pouring from it?

 

With the text underneath saying "let that be a warning to you all"

 

They won't be back.......

[Rusty Pelican]

Dave is Autoshite god - thank you young Sir for all your hard work 

[I_am_Diesel]

Thanks Dave, I really appreciate your contribution to the success of this site. Top bloke.

[HH-R]

This hacking malarkey, why do they do it? Is it just for fun? Teenage geeky herberts having a go etc?

Don't understand....

 

Most servers run a handful of programs (usually Apache web server and something like Wordpress, or some soft of forum software) so they find a vulnerability that hasn't been closed (or hasn't had a fix written for it yet) and gain admin access to the server. They will either nick the info if it's useful to them like customer data and either charge a ransom to the company for it, sell it on, steal the identities of the customers or use a "Hello it's Microsoft, you have a virus on your computer" style scam to get £. In the case of forums and smaller websites they'll not really be bothered about the data (though they'll happily add the email addresses of members to their spam lists) but will want access to the server - they can use it to send out spam or use it to infect visitors. The visitors PCs then become part of a massive network of computers that they have control over (usually without the owner knowing) and they can then use it for what they like. They usually use it for DDoSing websites (distributed denial of service) - hammering away at a website until it goes down or behaves oddly. Often when it behaves oddly they can break their way into that server too. Back in the days before Windows XP service pack 2 came out there was millions of zombie PCs as part of these networks, the owners never installing patches, downloading anything and everything off torrent sites etc.

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Most servers run a handful of programs (usually Apache web server and something like Wordpress, or some soft of forum software) so they find a vulnerability that hasn't been closed (or hasn't had a fix written for it yet) and gain admin access to the server. They will either nick the info if it's useful to them like customer data and either charge a ransom to the company for it, sell it on, steal the identities of the customers or use a "Hello it's Microsoft, you have a virus on your computer" style scam to get £. In the case of forums and smaller websites they'll not really be bothered about the data (though they'll happily add the email addresses of members to their spam lists) but will want access to the server - they can use it to send out spam or use it to infect visitors. The visitors PCs then become part of a massive network of computers that they have control over (usually without the owner knowing) and they can then use it for what they like. They usually use it for DDoSing websites (distributed denial of service) - hammering away at a website until it goes down or behaves oddly. Often when it behaves oddly they can break their way into that server too. Back in the days before Windows XP service pack 2 came out there was millions of zombie PCs as part of these networks, the owners never installing patches, downloading anything and everything off torrent sites etc.

or put simply "because they're twats"

[tooSavvy]

Or, put simply, they're entreprenures [looking for that eureka moment] & a GOLD visa a/c.

 

TS

[taxi paul]

Just glad that somebody listened at school. Sadly I never so I have absolutely no idea what any of this means. Good man.