[dundee] Recent WHT down time - Warning Nasty Hack, well worth a read cunning little ba.......

[Robert Ladyman]

And just as I was reading, a message came up...

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 WebHostingTalk.com is currently down for maintenance.

 Thank you for your patience,

 WebHostingTalk.com Team

Oh dear
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On Thursday 26 March 2009 16:04:59 Robert Ladyman wrote:


> Hmmm...interesting that the culprit went straight to the backup servers:
> how would they know where they were - inside information / social
> engineering? It shouldn't have been publically accessible, surely.
>
> On Thursday 26 March 2009 15:57:52 Arron Finnon wrote:
> > http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=729362
> >
> > Just come across this and i thought it worthy of a post.  Its a post
> > in the WebHostingTalk forum explaining their recent downtime.  Due to
> > backup servers being used in a deliberate, and planned attack.  Its
> > actually quite interesting.
> >
> > Hope someone enjoys, and remember your backup is coming to get you
> > whaahaahaahaaaaaa
> >
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