Comments on: TechBuzz Hacked!!

By: MattCutts Gets His Blog Hacked

MattCutts Gets His Blog Hacked — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:46:20 +0000

[...] a Turkish hacker had hacked TechBuzz, but it was merely a index hijack and I was able to fix it within no time.The lesson we have to [...]

By: Successful Blog - Even the Link Leaks Were Misbehaving!

Successful Blog - Even the Link Leaks Were Misbehaving! — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:32:45 +0000

[...] The Story of Tech Buzz Getting Hacked [...]

By: Afterlife(69)

Afterlife(69) — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:16:28 +0000

Ajay & Thilak, the email problem has been fixed.

By: Hans

Hans — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:29:42 +0000

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?

By: Thilak

Thilak — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 20:40:38 +0000

Ajay: You still don’t get Email Notifications ?

By: Ajay D'Souza

Ajay D'Souza — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 11:05:14 +0000

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.

By: Thilak

Thilak — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 02:42:13 +0000

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

By: CypherHackz

CypherHackz — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:44:52 +0000

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

By: Thilak

Thilak — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 01:43:23 +0000

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

By: Linu

Linu — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:01:48 +0000

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.

By: Thilak

Thilak — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:33:35 +0000

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

By: Thilak

Thilak — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:33:12 +0000

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 ?

By: Ajay D'Souza

Ajay D'Souza — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:26:15 +0000

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

By: Linu

Linu — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:02:26 +0000

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.

By: Thilak

Thilak — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:32:05 +0000

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

By: Ashish Mohta

Ashish Mohta — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:21:07 +0000

Good you are back.That really scares me though.