Motaddict
666 posts
Location: Netherlands


Posted:
I'm a light hearted guy, and i can have alot. I can respect people for whatever skills the posess. Graffiti artist, cool, make a nice drawing, and I'll stand right beside you. But just shamelessly defacing someones home, with nothing but racist slur and your in my bad books.



Essentially this happened to me, my home being my website. Shamelessly defaced, is just that. As some of you may know, I've got a website on poi and juggling in general. It's just a hobby, free for all to view, no ads, no strings, no forced logins, nothing. Just as it is, take it or leave it.



In that website, i have a forum, where a few of my friends and i chat alittle, discuss meets and future plans for videos and what ever else we can think of. Two weeks ago it was hacked. Fair enough, first time it happened to me. Quite annoying, but i had a back up, an old one, but none the less i got it working again. I lost alot of stuff, but i cut my loses and continued. Yesterday, I got hacked again, but this time they did enough damage to cripple my forum again. Had to install a new version, did'nt read my back up, lost everything.



Now comes the rant. To all you kiddies who wanna be just like the guy in hackers. If you have to stretch your proverbial wings, then hack something difficult. Manipulating a tiny bit of php just because you can is not cool. It's not even your own work, I guess you typed in how to hack into google and then stood on the shoulders of others. If you must hack, I'm not saying you should, but if you must, then please go for porn sites or rasicm sites or something. Firstly, it might present a challenge for you and secondly it could even be considered positive. I've lost the whole day, trying to restore my forum, and then getting a new one up and running. Thats it, thats all you achieved. My faith in humanity has taken a blow as well, but whatever, that'll bounce back.



Anyway, thats my angry rant, sorry. But I'm so highly strung at the moment I need some kindof outlet. Please, aspiring hackers, please, be reponsible with your skills. It's great that you can develop such an understanding of programming that you can manipulate it from outside. There is soo much bad stuff on the internet, evil stuff even, destroy that, not just some hippies homepage. If you need notches on your belt, try and earn good ones.



Silver lined clouds, it's been a learning experience, I'm a little wiser to the workings of it all now.



Moral of the story - To all of you fresh blood to web design, like me. Dont think that it wont happen to you, random attacks. I thought who in there right mind would bother to have a go at me and i got sloppy with back ups. If you have a forum, and you hav'nt backed up your data base in a few weeks, go forth and do it now. Dont let the security updates slide.

EDITED_BY: Mot (1141504790)

Come forth and thou shalt win enternal happiness. but he came fifth so he won an electric toatser.


SkulduggeryGOLD Member
Pirate Pixie Crew Captain
8,428 posts
Location: Wales


Posted:
hug

Your site has provided me and many others with inspiration. Don't let the little censored get you down! I for one thank you for the time and effort you have put into making your site what it is, helpful and informative with a side order of fun.

Feed me Chocolate!!! Feed me NOW!


Motaddict
666 posts
Location: Netherlands


Posted:
Thanks skully biggrin

I was pretty annoyed with the whole affair but I'm calming down already.

Tch, vandals (wow I really am getting old smile )

Come forth and thou shalt win enternal happiness. but he came fifth so he won an electric toatser.


Nephtysresident fridge magnet
835 posts
Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands


Posted:
hug

everyone's unique except me


Sakura_MoonHop's Kitten Jester.
1,803 posts
Location: Wonderland igloo, Vic, Australia


Posted:
hug
Hackers are petty people (usually skinny nerds who trhink the world owes them something) who are too runtish to go and pick a fight on the street so they hide behind their computer and destroy things.
Grrr

.:Pink Exocutioner:.

I am Jack's Raging Bile Duct...

Loving you from the deepest part of my loins.



IgirisujinSILVER Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
2,666 posts
Location: Preston, United Kingdom


Posted:
I just think there disillusioned adolescents who think that they belong to some sort of underground leet community and actually hold some sort of status. They should just get out and actually do something with themselves then they actually can be.

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'Time goes by so slowly for those who wait...' - Whatever Happend To Baby Madonna?


UCOFSILVER Member
15,417 posts
Location: South Wales


Posted:
Written by: Brit Joe



I just think there disillusioned adolescents who think that they belong to some sort of underground leet community and actually hold some sort of status.




rolleyes ubbcrying





Written by: Mot



If you must hack, I'm not saying you should, but if you must, then please go for porn sites or rasicm sites or something.






Not the porn sites! eek



Mot: That sucks, get on to your web hosters, get the IP logs, Report it hug2

EwokkiBRONZE Member
Member
30 posts
Location: United Kingdom


Posted:
You guys are talking about crackers here, they use their skills (even if it is just copy and paste) to just deface sites and wreck other things such as servers or entire networks. These people are normally power hungry adolescent males.

A hacker would only enter a site to expand their own knowledge, they would cover up their tracks and leave no trace that they were there. Hackers are generally just programmers expanding there knowledge in other ways that just learning code.
True hackers have been given such bad names by the media and other so called hackers (crackers, skiddies).
If you want to know more check out, www.sourceforge.org this is a 'home' for many hackers that share ideas/programs/code.

Thanks
Dan
16-year old hacker.

UCOFSILVER Member
15,417 posts
Location: South Wales


Posted:
I would take out that last line.
Otherwise you will get clumped together with "disillusioned adolescents".

And to be honest, I would say it is a script kiddie, and not a cracker.

"These people are normally power hungry adolescent males."
Once again, I would think this was done mainly by (not saying you but peoplelike you) 16 year old males who are trying to make themselves feel cool and show the world how 'dangerous, wild and individual' they are.

Trust, Ive been there... wink

polaritySILVER Member
veteran
1,228 posts
Location: on the wrong planet, United Kingdom


Posted:
Why I run my web server on OpenBSD.

If I had a pic hosted on my server I'd have the IP number of everyone who looked at it. And you can get the name of someones ISP from the IP, and then send mail to abuse@their.isp. And they get their account terminated, which will not please the parents who payed for it.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.

Green peppers, lime pickle and whole-grain mustard = best sandwich filling.


FireTomStargazer
6,650 posts

Posted:
mad2

hug Mot - good to hear that you're back online and kicking!

It seems to be in fashion these days...

After years of receiving hopeless virusmails from funny people (which get deleted by my provider anyways - so I was safe) some funny censored uses my email adress to send viruses to people of my adressbook.. eek

S/he even used my headers (not the usual: re. your application, data, bank accountcrap)... frown Very nicely done! Those have not been sent from my account, that much is sure and were likely to have contained some spy/derware...

This funny being is not just ruining my credibility - it's strongly annoying me... frown

I close shoulders with Mot: Girls and guys - if you really have to hack and check other peoples bank account statements or private informations: why not trying something challenging? Try BofA or G.W.B. accounts? umm Or maybe you don't have the skills and guts, so you have to pick on the average joe... umm wink

I'm not so much convinced that it's "power hungry...."
I guess they are not much thinking about what they do, or do just for the thrill and to proove that they CAN.

Unfortunately there seems to be no ethics code in those pirate-communities (anymore) shrug

the best smiles are the ones you lead to wink


ben-ja-menGOLD Member
just lost .... evil init
2,474 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia


Posted:
Written by: Ewokki


You guys are talking about crackers here, they use their skills (even if it is just copy and paste) to just deface sites and wreck other things such as servers or entire networks. These people are normally power hungry adolescent males.



crackers reverse engineer programs and patch code so you dont have to pay for stuff
i dunno what level of programming and knowledge your at but id recommend experimenting with these victem free hacker games

Written by: polarity


If I had a pic hosted on my server I'd have the IP number of everyone who looked at it. And you can get the name of someones ISP from the IP, and then send mail to abuse@their.isp. And they get their account terminated, which will not please the parents who payed for it.



not if they are using an anonymous proxy, or using a compromised pc as a proxy.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?


GnorBRONZE Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
5,814 posts
Location: Perth, Australia


Posted:
Thats really crappy Mot.angry censored


Your site is awesome as is your attitude.
hug hug

Is it the Truth?
Is it Fair to all concerned?
Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendships?
Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?

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JayKittyGOLD Member
Mission: Ignition
534 posts
Location: Central New Jersey, USA


Posted:
Your site took the HoP lessons to the next step for me and taught me some really awesome move I could dance with. Everything on your site was good natured and fun. It's horrible some little twit needed to make himself feel better by screwing with you.

I could go on ^_^ but I wanna keep the PG rating. anyway, you have my sympathies

Don't mind me, just passing through.


EwokkiBRONZE Member
Member
30 posts
Location: United Kingdom


Posted:
Written by:





crackers reverse engineer programs and patch code so you dont have to pay for stuff








Ah yes, i forgot about this as well, thast also true. Making Cracks/Patches/Keygens and the such-like.



EDIT: And thanks for the sites, but i already often frequent

hackthissite

hackquest

mod-x

rootthisbox



and some others.

polaritySILVER Member
veteran
1,228 posts
Location: on the wrong planet, United Kingdom


Posted:
Anonymous proxy isn't all it's cracked up to be.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.

Green peppers, lime pickle and whole-grain mustard = best sandwich filling.


ben-ja-menGOLD Member
just lost .... evil init
2,474 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia


Posted:
thats all well and good if you have the knowledge on how to do that and youve set up ur system to log the required info to do the trace and all your logs are still intact after the attack .... but if you had the knowledge to do such a trace i doubt you would have an insecure site .... unless your one of those honey pot ppl with to much time on their hands and i think the odds of winning the lottery are probably better

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?


ado-pGOLD Member
Pirate Ninja
3,882 posts
Location: Galway/Ireland


Posted:
*pat on the back for ben for having the geekiest hacker sig on HOP* wink



edit



and sympathy for MOT. NOT and afterthought. I promise smile



hug



Love is the law.


ben-ja-menGOLD Member
just lost .... evil init
2,474 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia


Posted:
ubblol

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?


EwokkiBRONZE Member
Member
30 posts
Location: United Kingdom


Posted:
As a general rule. (yes there are exceptions of course)

Hackers build things, Crackers break them.

polaritySILVER Member
veteran
1,228 posts
Location: on the wrong planet, United Kingdom


Posted:
I'm going to be upgrading my firewall to the type that records suspicious traffic and absolutely cannot be hacked to remove logs.

What I'd really like to do though is trace the kind of people who write spyware, so I can post their addresses on lots of bulletin boards, then local people can victimise them, hopefully with baseball bats.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.

Green peppers, lime pickle and whole-grain mustard = best sandwich filling.


wonderloeyenthusiast
255 posts
Location: Melbourne - home of pirates


Posted:
Its an interesting distinction to make.. But where does hacking end and cracking begin?

I don't think there's enough of a distinction really..

Whether you come into my bedroom and trash the place, or come in, move a few things, and put them back, I just don't like you being in there without my permission...

Just a thought. shrug

"You've gone from Loey the Wonder Lesbian to everyone wondering if you are a lesbian." - Shadowman

Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow.


ben-ja-menGOLD Member
just lost .... evil init
2,474 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia


Posted:
Written by: polarity


What I'd really like to do though is trace the kind of people who write spyware, so I can post their addresses on lots of bulletin boards, then local people can victimise them, hopefully with baseball bats.



or just give the info to the authorities so they can put em in prison, im sure the daily sodomy would be punishment enough

Written by: wonderloey


Whether you come into my bedroom and trash the place, or come in, move a few things, and put them back, I just don't like you being in there without my permission...




hacking a network is illegal full stop. if you dont ppl to come into your bedroom you wouldnt leave the doors to your house unlocked would you?

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?


newgabeSILVER Member
what goes around comes around. unless you're into stalls.
4,030 posts
Location: Bali, Australia


Posted:
Ben, you have ended your post with an astonishingly 'blame the victim' statement. I leave my house unlocked nearly all the time. I like the airflow. I trust that people walking past will know perfectly well that is not an invitation to enter my bedroom, or to spread sh*t on the walls if they did! Similarly I walk about the streets as a vulnerable unarmed female, but am not,by that, inviting assault. I do understand that the internet/pooter world is much more full of nasty types than my suburban street. But in either case, leaving the 'door unlocked' does not imply a desire for cyber/spacial rape.

.....Can't juggle balls but I sure as hell can juggle details....


ben-ja-menGOLD Member
just lost .... evil init
2,474 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia


Posted:
Written by: newgabe


Ben, you have ended your post with an astonishingly 'blame the victim' statement. I leave my house unlocked nearly all the time. I like the airflow. I trust that people walking past will know perfectly well that is not an invitation to enter my bedroom, or to spread sh*t on the walls if they did! Similarly I walk about the streets as a vulnerable unarmed female, but am not,by that, inviting assault. I do understand that the internet/pooter world is much more full of nasty types than my suburban street. But in either case, leaving the 'door unlocked' does not imply a desire for cyber/spacial rape.




to be honest gabe your house is an exception to pretty much every rule which is an awesome thing. i agree that an open door is not an invition to enter, breaking the law is breaking the law.

the level of cyber crime on the net is astounding (i recieve at least 4 emails a week from people trying to steal my bank details) https://www.zone-h.org/en/defacements/special
is one site of defaced sites lists which only list big sites. its the admins job to make sure holes are patched firewalls running etc etc to close all the doors to stop ppl getting in.

your not afraid of someone entering your house who isnt ment to be there hence the open door. if there was a reason for you to be afraid of someone entering your house (ie home invansion was happening on a regular basis in your community) surely you would be much more inclined to not leave your front door open when no ones home??

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?


shen shuiSILVER Member
no excuses. no apologies.
1,799 posts
Location: aotearoa, New Zealand


Posted:
i like mot.
bad things should not happen to people i like.
tut-tut. tsk-tsk.
on the lighter side, mots cool!

yaaay mot! (mot you're a hero! keep up the great work!)

those that know, dont say. those that say, dont know.



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