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[nycphp-talk] Need some understanding about a hacker attack...

David Krings ramons at gmx.net
Sun Oct 12 08:13:41 EDT 2008


mikesz at qualityadvantages.com wrote:
> That was the part that floored me. They threw it out there with NO other 
> justification or ANY evidence to support their assumption, nothing and 
> in a really, really nonchalant tone which bugged me even more. Actually, 
> they did refer to the folders in the product that require write access 
> to do things like realtime image conversions and uploads, but definitely 
> NO, "we found a hacker using such and such folder" nothing like that and 
> as I mentioned the exploited folder was and is read only so that was 
> another red herring they threw at me.

Maybe it was not a hack, but the hoster who rededicated your server space to 
someone else to rake in some more dough (pure speculation). Can you let us 
know who that hosting company is?

David



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