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2004-12-17 Home Front: WoT

Moderate Moslem site hacked by Less Moderate Moslems

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Posted by mhw 2004-12-17 10:00:16 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The site, before anyone asks, was running FreeBSD.

Hard to believe a web hosting company would have FreeBSD server open enough they could be hacked like that.

Posted by badanov 2004-12-17 10:22:59 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-12-17 10:22:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 FreeBSD 'ships' ( it is a free download ) without ANY firewall of ANY kind. You must recompile the kernal to get firewall protection of any kind at all.

Also, FreeBSD 'ships' without anything other than the basic operating system, no editors (except for vi and edit) no nothing. You must put a ton of work into the OS in order to get stuff like a web-server or an ftp server running.

Sounds to me like the folks hosting this site didn't do any of that. Sounds like they just installed FreeBSD, installed a web server, and away they went. They had it coming, IMHO, but of course, that doesn't excuse the hackers who did this.

Posted by badanov 2004-12-17 10:49:38 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-12-17 10:49:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 maybe they thought that the compassionate and merciful Allan would protect their site

Posted by mhw 2004-12-17 11:47:34 AM|| 2004-12-17 11:47:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 insallah we will need no firewall.

Posted by Shipman 2004-12-17 1:54:12 PM|| 2004-12-17 1:54:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 doesn't this fall into a fairly consistent pattern after a bin Laden tape release. Websites hacked?

Posted by 2b 2004-12-17 1:55:48 PM|| 2004-12-17 1:55:48 PM|| Front Page Top

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