Post
Topic
Board Project Development
Re: TWEETFORUM.COM CURRENTLY BEING HACKED !!- Moderated, Clean ,Web 2.0 Connected
by
darvil
on 27/06/2011, 10:28:50 UTC
Did you not have backups?  Is everything gone?

I think you just came off a bit strong thats all.  I run some sites myself and I know the work it takes; sometime thankless.  Maybe you took it too personally.  Just relax.

How are you recovering from this right now?  Got your data dumps?

Is the site hosted on a VPS/server ?
I have everything backed up to a flash drive. It's a vps. I won't divulge any more personal information since the hacker is probably reading this thread right now as we speak.

EDIT: I can tell you that the attack was basically a script programming the creation of .core files by the thousands. I have no IDEA how that script got in my server, which is why I think It was a brute force attack on the ftp account, or a leak of information. I knew I was vulnerable so I always kept a backup of all my work in an encrypted flash drive. The core files were basically huge blocks of random chars, generated to slow down/ and eventually max out the forum, till you see what your seeing now.

You sure about that?.. more likely straight through your site. 

Good luck on recovering.  Are you bringing it all back up? Redoing the VPS? checking your webserver logs?

Tighten down your vps Wink