Please do, and lets do preventive measures this time (and add a dark theme
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I'm curious, was the host compromised or just vBulletin?
I'm as in the dark as you are, I'm a volunteer mod not a server admin. I meant I should get back to my real job -food doesn't put itself on the table!
That was quite touching. Let's spam his email more as he seems to like it so much haha
spamming free disposable email addresses would give me precisely no pleasure.
my post was more aimed at the three lads behind the security forum, thinking that they are the muts nuts yet leaving enough information for my to be able to look at the state of their yard, their neighbours houses etc on Google maps.
I'll tell you what as well, I'll bet it was a lot more fun (as a technical challenge) for me to spend less than an hour and find out all that information than it was for them to run a script against a server. -and no I didn't use any special mod stuff, I just looked at the hacked page source and worked from there. finding their names, addresses currently registered domains, previously registered domains actual email addresses that they use to sign into messenger (not the throw away ones that they've put on the hacked page), finding out their families names, what sort of jobs their parents had, in the case of one pictures of their parents, details of their house, the values of their houses, works done on their houses, their ages what school they go to...
It's amazing what kind of stuff people put out there to find on the internet, I was a little disappointed I wasn't able to find out if they had any pets.
-that information may be out there, but I couldn't find it in my lunch break.
By the way, if anyone does go forward with the DDoS attack, I'm all for it. But I think we should let the police deal with these crapheads.
Really, after what I've just about the dubious legality of this practice, the fact that you could find yourself without a computer due to state intervention. you'd really want to do that?
as for the police? this is a small potatoes incident, these guys are a loose band of guys from across the world, I doubt that Interpol are going to spring into action over what looks like a simple exploit that should have already been patched being used.
(which is exactly why this kind of thing keeps going ahead). factor in the fact that these kids really are "just kids" (in the legal sense) it's not like there is going to be a conviction happening any time soon!
but as I've said above, if the police did become involved it'd stop being funny pretty quickly. (dawn raids just aren't fun).
Can someone get this guy's IP? He posted, you can get his IP now.
as I said in my previous post, he came to this forum from a VPS server,
what I didn't say was that that server was hosted at hostnoc.net who are a "anonymous" reseller host, basically they resell hosting on burstnet, but they make a big deal of being a faceless organisation to make people think that they are secure and private and anonymous...
but guess what, they are hosted in the states and would roll over the second the police showed up, (possibly even quicker than these guys would roll over on each other if push came to shove).
but there's just no point stooping down to his level.
my thoughts exactly.
I'm more raising an eyebrow at the length of time it's taking to get the issue sorted in fairness... is there a status update at all?
really, stop reading my mind it's getting kinda scary.