Comments on: ProBlogger Hack Update

By: Shoemoney.com hacked by turkish hacker? - stefanjuhl.com

Shoemoney.com hacked by turkish hacker? - stefanjuhl.com — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 08:53:20 +0000

[...] Also, I wonder, for a guy like Jeremy who has large reader base, if this wouldn’t be awesome link bait for him? If he put up such an page by himself he’d be sure that someone would blog about it, and thereby get a bunch of links… It happened to Problogger not long ago and Darren got some links out of it. [...]

By: Silent Assassin

Silent Assassin — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 13:23:06 +0000

Maybe you should look into better security for your site. Email me and I could give you some ideas…

By: Darknet

Darknet — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:13:02 +0000

It’s just a another lame mass defacement replacing all the index files on a virtual hosting server, check Zone-H, there’s hundreds every day.

By: Ray Dotson

Ray Dotson — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:20:54 +0000

I wish these people would find something more constructive to do. Think of all the productive energy wasted. I’m sure they could be making a ton of money doing something legit…

By: Salman

Salman — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:38:03 +0000

You know your website is popular when someone wants to use its traffic as a means to get their word out hehe.

By: Why Kickholder is a Damn Idiot » Think You Know Your Dallas Cowboys?

Why Kickholder is a Damn Idiot » Think You Know Your Dallas Cowboys? — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:10:31 +0000

[...] We noticed yesterday that the fellow at ProBlogger.net was hacked, and his material was replaced by some political messages. That is unfortunate, but (1) the guy obviously knows what he is doing with his blog, and (2) he (and IT administrators) got it up and running in the same day. [...]

By: /pd

/pd — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:49:44 +0000

Darren, Can your server guy , id the vectors of the attack ? it will be interesting to see how this happened. Maybe share the sec glitch , so others can zone themselves accordingly to negate risks.

any ideas what s/he meant “For the Impolite Admins … who sent me impolite MSGs ” — was this a provoked attack ?

By: Pat Phelan

Pat Phelan — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:05:58 +0000

Glad it all worked out ok Darren.

By: Doug Karr

Doug Karr — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:33:32 +0000

Glad to see you back up and online!

Regards,
Doug

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 03:33:25 +0000

Look at the bright side, now you have the word “hack” and “hacker” as content on your site, maybe Google or Technorati will pick up on it and get you even higher rankings ;).

That just guarantees that script kiddies will be asking him how to hack. :)

By: Jeremy S

Jeremy S — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 03:24:09 +0000

Look at the bright side, now you have the word “hack” and “hacker” as content on your site, maybe Google or Technorati will pick up on it and get you even higher rankings ;).

Just a side note, if the hacker is still at large then ridiculing him/her/it would most likely make them want to do it again.

By: Natalie Ferguson

Natalie Ferguson — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:49:15 +0000

Must be the time of hacking – our blog was also targeted a few weeks ago, though in our case I suspect it was more random than someone targeting us because we were famous ;) .
It did occur to me, while spending hours fixing the problem, that I am so pleased I am the hacked and not the hacker…

By: Blaine Moore (First Time Homeowner)

Blaine Moore (First Time Homeowner) — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:49:14 +0000

Glad to see you are back up and running, Darren.

If you find out how he got in, please let us know (once you’ve closed the hole) so that we can all make sure that we are also protected.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:43:46 +0000

I remember my first hack. We were targeted by a conference in the Netherlands last summer.

Destroyed the site. What great memories.

By: thatedeguy

thatedeguy — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:57:06 +0000

I’ve got a screenshot and some of the text from the site when it was still hacked if anyone is curious.

http://www.thatedeguy.com/archives/2006/08/jobsprobloggernet-has-been-hacked

Good to see everything is up and running again Darren!

By: » jobs.problogger.net has been hacked! -- Thatedeguy

» jobs.problogger.net has been hacked! -- Thatedeguy — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:54:49 +0000

[...] UPDATE: Darren has a post up on ProBlogger that explains what happened and to what extent. It would seem that there were at least three of Darren’s sites affected and that the attack was aimed at the host and not the sites in particular. [...]

By: Leon

Leon — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:25:23 +0000

My websites also had their index pages swapped a few weeks ago. The recovery process sure sucks. But at least im glad they didnt target other files.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:00:24 +0000

Frankly Jim it’s far better that Darren say no more that he already has.

By: "Pink Eyed" Jim

"Pink Eyed" Jim — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:35:14 +0000

Haha Darren,

You’ve REALLY made it once you’re hacked.

I’m interested in what the jerkwad posted… you should put it back up and we can ridicule it horribly.

:-)

By: Eitan

Eitan — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:54:04 +0000

“Bee in his bonnet?” Do people still say that?