Blogsearchengine.com, one of the largest search engine and directories of blogs in the internet have been defaced. Today as I opened this link I was shocked to see this ..
A Hacker from Iran
Special Thanks to Nobodycoder
Help?
(the Help link pointed to mosavi1986 [at] gmail.com)
This was a bit too much for Blogsearchengine has an excellent alexa traffic ranking of 34,795 and you can imagine how many people is getting affected. This happened in an around 17th October, 2006 as I got it from the cached snpshot of the page. An interesting fact in this regard is huge size of the hacked page which is almost 330kb compared to the normal size which is less than 10kb. Blogsearchengine is not the only site defaced by the notorious hacker. I did a Google search and found several other sites also got defaced. Here are some .. www.yaci.net, www.waterfilterstuff.com, www.manilayachtclub.org/guestbook/, www.puz.hr/forum/. Sites getting hacked by Mosavi1986 shows a similar message throughout and the message looks like this. Blogsome also got hacked in a similar way a few days back as was told by Ramnath. We know little about the hacker though.
Why are these sites getting defaced?
These sort of attacks are known as DOS attacks (wiki ref) and “are very hard to defend against” says The Uvular R, the site admin of Blogsome.com The hacker targets the configuration.php file and increases the size to large extent. According to Amos Wong, sites are subject to these sort of attacks if the permission of the configuration.php file is set to 777 or 666. According to him it should be set to 644 instead. Phew .. too simple isnt it!!
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