[Noisebridge-discuss] blog.noisebridge.net got hacked

Corey McGuire coreyfro at coreyfro.com
Thu Dec 8 20:58:49 UTC 2011


Security through disinterest.  What, me worry?

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Elijah Post <elijahpost at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Elijah Post <elijahpost at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> *facepalm*
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>> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:
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>>> Andy noticed it time last night. The attacker most likely got in through
>>> exploits with an old mediawiki instance I had forgotten about from years
>>> ago, went in and added in some .htaccess redirects to some .ru domain. I
>>> don't have any evidence that they touched the wordpress DB, and your
>>> passwords are hashed up, but I'm email to let you know all this has
>>> happened.
>>>
>>> If you're not security conscience and reuse the same password for
>>> everything, I would highly recommend going around and changing your
>>> passwords right now. If you're smart and used a unique password for this
>>> wordpress instance, then you're good.
>>>
>>> Currently the blog is down. I'm going to do an export of it, move it
>>> over to a new VPS and hopefully not drag anything malicious along with
>>> it. I think I can recreate the user accounts just fine but there's a
>>> chance that wont happen and I'll have to recreate things from scratch,
>>> which is fine. Except that your passwords will get reset once the blog
>>> comes back online.
>>>
>>> Let me know if you've got any questions. Thanks!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Rubin
>>> rubin at starset.net
>>>
>>>
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>> --
>> *Elijah Louis Spenser Post
>> Mechanic (San Francisco Bike Kitchen)*
>> *Participant (NoiseRep at Noisebridge)*
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> *Elijah Louis Spenser Post
> Mechanic (San Francisco Bike Kitchen)*
> *Participant (NoiseRep at Noisebridge)*
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