Stupid F*****G Hackers or Crackers or Whatever the Hell They’re Called!
By Sheila on Feb 4, 2010 in Advertising Tips
My blog was hacked today. Somehow someone inserted a huge line of code into my blogs header which caused it to redirect to a bunch of stupid sites. I wish I could redirect something right back at them that would blow up their damn computers while they’re busy hacking into someone’s private property. These people make me insane!!!!! I wasn’t aware of how much I didn’t know about these morons. I didn’t know that hacker isn’t really an appropriate word for these #$$@^&*(), the appropriate term would be cracker. Hackers break code for good and crackers break code for evil. Here’s some info from a great site which helped me better understand the world of a hack or crack or whatever the heck they are. hackingalert.com
A Brief History
One might not suspect that the art, or scourge, of computer hacking was created at one of the havens for technological excellence. True, at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), a group of students developed the technique and borrowed their name from the “hackers” of the late 1800s who found amusement in pranking the emerging telephone companies.Getting their laughs and skills from hacking and cracking into primitive computers and exploiting the Arpanet (predecessor to the internet), they created a novelty that would become the target of federal crackdown in years to come. To define hacking in short, we can say that an artistic criminal offense of breaking into another remote system without the owner’s consent for the purpose of stealing information is what is hacking.
However, the act of hacking started out innocently, and was basically a method of trying to figure out how computer systems worked. The 1970s saw the rise in “phreaking,” or phone hacking, headed by John Draper. This method allowed the user of a “blue box,”, when used with a Captain Crunch whistle of 2600 hertz which accessed the AT&T long distance system, to make free long distance calls. Hackers initiated with accessing the free phone calls through a varied range of sources, thereby managing to circumvent into the nation’s radio system and the phoning system resulting in a tremendous phone fraud nationwide.
After the age of “phreaking,” computers became not only the target, but also the forum, for a growing hacker population to communicate. The creation of bulletin board systems (BBS) allowed this communication and the technological possibility of more serious government and credit card hacking became possible. At this time in the early 80′s, hacking groups such as the Legion of Doom began to emerge in the United States, giving organization, and thus more power to hackers across the country.
Once this happened, breaking into the computers became a legitimate activity, with its own groups and soon its own voice with the 2600 magazine, launched in 1984. The effects of computer hacking were serious. Two years later, inevitably, Congress launched the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act that outlawed hacking. Over the years, there was a series of noticeable occurrences as the worst consequential effect of computer hacking on more high profile cases, such as the Morris Worm, responsible for infecting government and university systems, and the Mitnick case in 1995, which captured Kevin Mitnick, steeling as many as 20000 credit card numbers.
In 1999, security software became widely known by the public, and with the release of new Windows programs, which were littered with security weaknesses, they became successful because of necessity. This fraudulent act of computer hacking is perhaps the major problem, confronting the rapidly expanding population of Internet users today, with the systems still trying to battle online hackers. Visit hackingalert.com for more info.
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29 Comment(s)
By Spicybugz on Feb 4, 2010 | Reply
I am sorry that happened to you. I think these people should do jail time. We need new and better laws. I see you got it fixed because I wasn’t redirected anywhere.
By RE - A BadGalSays on Feb 4, 2010 | Reply
btw, you are not the only site that got wacked today on entrecard. did you notice that this is a trojan-c. yeah that’s malicious code indeed. I think if you keep audit trail running on your backside of your blog you can find the entry where they inserted the code, and what their ip addy is.
you should also be able to see it, in your action logs on your server. it’s there trust me. yeppper that’s what I learned the last time around. this time, not gonna be a target.
let me know if I can help with defense software as You know I know what to use.
you need a ric-roll file in your archive to distract them and to get rid of your index.php file. that’s what they hack.
By Zaldy's Blog on Feb 4, 2010 | Reply
Feel sad for you to happen it. But somehow i attracted with the image in this post. LOL. By the way, could you tell me where sites they redirected you?
By RE - A BadGalSays on Feb 4, 2010 | Reply
Sheila I’m linking to this post and also providing additional info on how to identify and repair from the problem. somebody has to do it since Entrecard isn’t going to.
By RE - Entrepod on Feb 4, 2010 | Reply
Sheila here’s the direct link to the post
http://wp.me/pynsN-8D and it includes the remedies and videos explaining how they do it.
obtw, the originating site is on Entrecard from what I’ve been able to piece together. their attempts on my site failed, due to due dilligence on my part after the previous incident.
remove your chat box, that is one of their entrypaths.
By John on Feb 5, 2010 | Reply
I’ve glad you’ve got it fixed. Thank goodness it didn’t happen while you were on holiday or something. It’s interesting to read about the history of hacking
By Icy BC on Feb 5, 2010 | Reply
Your title got me
Love it!
Last week, the same thing happened to my friend’s site..A whole lot of mess for her to re-installed. I’ll send her your post!
By Jen on Feb 5, 2010 | Reply
Katherine from shoot-me-now.com was also hacked this week. In addition to getting hacked she also had the privileged of having her blog copied and pasted onto another blogger’s site. Someone who commented on her very post that she copied. I notice a trojan on Cinnamon and Spice .com as well. Don’t want to leave a link since it is still there. Don’t these people have better things to do while they sit in their mother’s basement eating Doritos and watching soft porn? Losers!
By Katherine - I was hacked! on Feb 5, 2010 | Reply
LOL I was going to post about how two days ago I was hacked in the SAME WAY… and then I saw Jen from Redhead Ranting posted about me! I was SO UPSET… I am an honest, normal person just trying to make a bit more money to literally feed three children… and here comes some goofball who really REALLY hurts me financially – AND they hurt me in the serps.
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By Sheila on Feb 5, 2010 | Reply
I really am shocked by how often this happens. What the hell do people get out of this? It’s not like you’re not going to notice it. F-ing MORONS!!!!!!!!
By Sheila on Feb 5, 2010 | Reply
I sent Cinnamon and Spice a note the other day about the box that was showing up on her site. What really surprises me is that people will report your site for a tos violation but don’t send you a message letting you know. I got I message from someone and a warning from EC because people complained about the redirect.
By melandria on Feb 6, 2010 | Reply
That’s really alarming. Hope everyone can be aware of this.
Just want to ask, if you receive my previous comment. Was here also to claim my ec credits from Liz – Bloguardian Hellsite contest. Thank you so much.
By Beth Charette on Feb 6, 2010 | Reply
Why in the world someone would use their natural creative gifts to be so destructive of good will, I’ll never know.
It’s just man’s genius being dedicated to evil purposes and is one of the reasons that we will always have wars until people understand it is not cute to hurt others.
Beth
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By Man Over Board on Feb 6, 2010 | Reply
I first found out about your hack by Mama ASID’s blog and knew immediately how you felt. Sorry Sheila, it SUCKS!
I was lucky to have one of my readers last week add a few comments and I always try my best to get around and leave comments back at their site/blog as soon as I am able. Anyway
She knew her shite in a big way. She is a big time genius geek and a funny one at that. I bookmarked her sites and now I have yet another blog to try and read daily.
We had an interesting and quick conversation and while hacking has been going on since the first days of the net, it isn’t the teenage, genius nerds adding the malicious codes and malware any longer.
As I am sure you are aware, but maybe a few readers are not is the fact most attacks come from one of two places. The first I knew about many moons ago and that was the anti-virus companies who so nicely sell you their product for keeping your hard drive safe from their own attacks. After all why would anyone need to buy such software if the need was so minimal. Of course it makes perfect dollars and sense.
The second attacks are done with much more vigor and with increasingly better defenses to stay permanently in your system. You can call them whatever you like but Organized crime are the parents of such rogue scripts/programs, for use in propagating their intended need to acquire ill gotten gains.
The net is just a microcosm of the world we live in today and as long as cyber space grows in size and complexity, the more we will see and fall victims to their f*#&ing schemes.
Of course Mac owners are the first to tell you “why I never have to worry” That might be true for now, but as more and more people buy Apple products then their increasing population will see more and more of the BS we PC users enjoy.
Lastly I think every comment I have ever left here, I always tell you how beautiful the girls you find for the posts are. Once again, even amidst such rotten problems you find yet another hottie
Can’t lose your sense of humor, or they win.
By self defense Rob on Feb 6, 2010 | Reply
Man, That sucks, glad you are back in control of your blog again.
By mike golch on Feb 7, 2010 | Reply
it would seem like Entrecard is verr easily hacked into,there have been times that instead of going to legitimate blogs that they were taken over and sent to a different site.
By Bogcess on Feb 7, 2010 | Reply
That’s sad sheila.. I hope I’m not the next victim. Really scary.. What if the hacker is from entrecard?
By Kirhat on Feb 7, 2010 | Reply
Good thing you were able to address the problem fast. I’m not sure why they targeted your site, but I also thought that some blogs in entrecard were victimized a few days ago. I informed the owners about it and I was hoping they were able to fix everything the way you did.
Seek No More
By Sheila on Feb 7, 2010 | Reply
I think I’ve seen some more of these hacks also. I was REALLY lucky to find the code, it stuck out like a sore thumb – I’m not a geek and it could have taken a long time to find this. It is very frustrating.
By Sheila on Feb 7, 2010 | Reply
I think you’re right – it seems like EC is a portal for these hackers.
By Sheila on Feb 7, 2010 | Reply
You’d think these guys would want to earn the big bucks doing this legitimately.
By Yashiro on Feb 7, 2010 | Reply
Welcome to the club of being hacked, cracked, or whatever. Last year I was also a victim of that my other site was injected with some malwares that causes to be seen as conveyor of malware. So I decided to clean and look for it but in the process (I was a dumb one) I accidentally deleted my back up without noticing it. Good thing is that you still have those hot chix. Good day!
By adeyera on Feb 8, 2010 | Reply
Hi,you website is nice.The articles on it are interesting.keep up the good work
By Rob on Feb 8, 2010 | Reply
That’s too bad – sorry to hear about the hack. I should check my own site to see if anything happened there.
By Premium WP Themes on Feb 8, 2010 | Reply
Good to know that you recovered your site back. Many a times the site which are been hacked goes dead by not recovering it by time.
By online games for kids on Feb 22, 2010 | Reply
that’s really a terrible experience. you need to back up all the time.
then again, they chose your blog because it is so popular. do u think a hacker will target a blog that no one reads?
its a positive thing, in a way!
By custom logo design on Mar 3, 2010 | Reply
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By Abdul on May 16, 2010 | Reply
This is sad. I think we bloggers need to start taking more security measures to prevent our blogs from the stupid act of these hackers.