Posts tagged “hacking”

Hacked again :-(Dec 11, 2006

Got hacked again, but caught it faster this time and found the entry point. Hopefully that's the end of it.

HackedDec 2, 2006

My hosting account was hacked Friday: phishing sites, bulk emailers, the works. My host caught it after 11 hours and shut me down. I've been cleaning up since, but the hole may still be open. Upgrades and migrations are coming. I feel awful about being an unwilling accomplice to criminals.

Hoo boy, is the US military dumb. You know .mil domain, used for sites like Pentagon.mil? Well,...Jan 26, 2003

Anyone could register .mil domains, including pentagon.mil, with no password required, thanks to two completely open pages on the military's own servers. The Register broke it but stayed coy about details. Slashdot didn't. Neither will I. Go nuts before they fix it.

Okay, so this one's worth mentioning... a black-hat hacker's diary on ZDNet: they paid two...Apr 3, 2001

Interesting ZDNet piece featuring professional scam artists' diaries. They exploit AOL's screen name policy as a spamming springboard. Also, work picked up: converting Excel spreadsheets to Access databases with incompatible formats, which may mean learning VBA.