TechBuzz Hacked!!

Earlier tonight all my blog including TechBuzz was hacked a Turkish hacker who goes by the name iSKORPiTX. He is the same guy who hacked Shoemoney’s blog. According to SecurityProNews, He is thought to be a 45-year-old Turkish man. Since 2003, he’s hacked an estimated 117,000 websites read more >>

This is the first time I’ve been hacked. I’m not sure how he gained the access to my blog, but he didn’t delete my data, he just replaced the index.php file. I’ve learnt a lesson from this episode. Thanks to Hans for finding out that my blog was hacked.

PS: My personal blog is still under repair, I’ll get back to you ASAP.

This post was published by on November 23, 2006

About the Author: Thilak Rao works as a Social Media Expert. He is one of the first professional bloggers from India, and he loves to write, travel and click photos. Follow him on Twitter @thilak

  • http://www.technospot.net/blogs Ashish Mohta

    Good you are back.That really scares me though.

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Ashish: Do a habbit of regularly backing up your blog. I’ll serve as a insurance, just incase your blog gets hacked by someone.

    Thanks for the comment :)

  • http://everydayspace.blogspot.com/ Linu

    Thilak:
    This Turkish hacker’s story has been very popular Now. Did you ask your host to blog the IP address of this Hacker?

    The Qiestion is how did he gain access to your Blog?

    Very Easy! Pluggin! If you use some old pluggin, that could be a reason, hackers can easily manipulate this type of script.

    Make sure that you don’t have folder with 777 permission, it is like a welcome message to Hacker!

    Through a reverse ip look up, check all other website are working fine under you host, if all other website has been also hacked like yours, the question is about your Host security features! If they are only saying a sorry, it is time to look for another better host.

  • http://ajaydsouza.com/ Ajay D’Souza

    Was FTP compromised or was it incorrect write permissions on your index.php?

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Linu: Thanks for the tip, I’ll change my write permission, but I don’t think that was the reason, all blogs hosted on my host’s server are hacked by the same person. Time to search for a new host, any suggestions ?

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Ajay: As Linu said, It was due to incorrect write permission

  • http://everydayspace.blogspot.com/ Linu

    Thilak: My host is lypha.com I am happy with their server security system. Before you choose a Hosting Firm, check in http://webhostingtalk.com/ about that host! Check thier IP history! Do some pre-sale correspondence and evalute their customer service! (correspondence with them in yahoo, gmail and hotmail address, see whether their mails comes in your bulk or Junk folder)

    Check their server status in websitepulse.net, ask for a demo cpanel and spend enough time to play with it. check wether they use lattest script in Fantastico.

    Finding these things will help you for better future hosting.

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Linu: Thanks for the link, I’ll surely check them out later tonight

  • http://www.cypherhackz.net CypherHackz

    maybe there is some scripts that you use that give him way to exploit your website.

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    CypherHackz: No, He hacked all blogs and websites on my server.

  • http://ajaydsouza.com/ Ajay D’Souza

    if he hacked everything on the server, then your server is extremely insecure.

    Running a VPS is helpful then. I’ve got it very highly secured :)

    Haven’t been hacked, yet…

    BTW, I’m not getting any of your subscription emails.

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Ajay: You still don’t get Email Notifications ?

  • http://blogosquare.blog.mu Hans

    nice, I could be of help to you. I think now plugins developers should be cooking something to prevent hackers access to our blogs, like Bad Behavior does for spam bots ;) I’m still pondering how he got access to your blog. Do you think he got access by hacking your ftp account, or maybe he used something to direct your domain to another index.page??

    *wow* 117,000 that’s a lot…..hasn’t he been apprehended yet after so much damage?

  • http://afterlife69.com Afterlife(69)

    Ajay & Thilak, the email problem has been fixed.

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