NerdSlayer
Coder
A few years ago I was working on a forum project where people could talk about virtually anything. I spent a couple of weeks putting everything together and got right into advertising. I remember putting a posting on a popular hacking forum so I could get people with tech skills to join - and sure enough, someone from the site compromised my site and dared to brag about it in my original thread. Ha! What a wild experience. Not only were all my site files taken but he left a wonderful deface page for me to take in.
Needless to say, after that I was more determined than ever to figure out why my site was so easily breached. Turns out, there was just an unpatched 0day in the MyBB software at the time and probably only a handful of people knew about it and I happened to be an unlucky statistic. I never did let it get to me, as I went on to create several projects there-on and never had another incident.
Have any of you had a compromised website before? It can be scary!
Needless to say, after that I was more determined than ever to figure out why my site was so easily breached. Turns out, there was just an unpatched 0day in the MyBB software at the time and probably only a handful of people knew about it and I happened to be an unlucky statistic. I never did let it get to me, as I went on to create several projects there-on and never had another incident.
Have any of you had a compromised website before? It can be scary!