Has BW been Hacked?

pair8head · Post by **pair8head** » December 21, 2004 9:27 am

I got a black page with red lettering that said....

"This site defaced" then something about a worm.

rednekkPH · Post by **rednekkPH** » December 21, 2004 9:41 am

I got the same thing.

Ruh-roh, Raggy.

jr mint · Post by **jr mint** » December 21, 2004 9:54 am

Hacked big time.

It is indeed a webworm, targetting the most recent vulnerabilities
announced this past Friday in PHP.

Yesterday a or some Brazilian hackers went at a bunch of sites. I think it is a Spam type hack.

Hopefully he wont loose everything during his restore..

phtnt · Post by **phtnt** » December 21, 2004 10:02 am

rednekkPH · Post by **rednekkPH** » December 21, 2004 10:04 am

I blame it all on BW's newest moderator.

*fingers smiley*

Tiki Bar · Post by **Tiki Bar** » December 21, 2004 10:07 am

I don't visit much, but AMC put a lot of work into having a cool site. I feel bad for him and his guests, and hope there's an easy fix.

st.somewhere · Post by **st.somewhere** » December 21, 2004 10:09 am

Tiki Bar wrote:I don't visit much, but AMC put a lot of work into having a cool site. I feel bad for him and his guests, and hope there's an easy fix.

Who's AMC and what site are you referring to?

rednekkPH · Post by **rednekkPH** » December 21, 2004 10:10 am

st.somewhere wrote:
Tiki Bar wrote:I don't visit much, but AMC put a lot of work into having a cool site. I feel bad for him and his guests, and hope there's an easy fix.
Who's AMC and what site are you referring to?

Josh, aka Air Margaritaville Captain. He's an occasional poster here, and administrator at ************.

phtnt · Post by **phtnt** » December 21, 2004 10:10 am

Air Margaritaville Cap'n and Jimmy Buffett World

RhumChum · Post by **RhumChum** » December 21, 2004 10:13 am

So ... where's the eighth day of Christmas postings???

jr mint · Post by **jr mint** » December 21, 2004 10:16 am

Tiki Bar wrote:I don't visit much, but AMC put a lot of work into having a cool site. I feel bad for him and his guests, and hope there's an easy fix.

I agree he has put a whole lot of work into his site. Along with this one it is my favorite Buffett site.

No real easy fix I'm afraid. They had a field day with the php and html files. A good backed up restore is really the only way to get everything back. Plus if he doesn't wipe his server clean (i.e. format and reinstall) the hackers still have a back door to his box.

st.somewhere · Post by **st.somewhere** » December 21, 2004 10:22 am

rednekkPH wrote:
st.somewhere wrote:
Tiki Bar wrote:I don't visit much, but AMC put a lot of work into having a cool site. I feel bad for him and his guests, and hope there's an easy fix.
Who's AMC and what site are you referring to?
Josh, aka Air Margaritaville Captain. He's an occasional poster here, and administrator at ************.

Ohhh... I thought Pair8head was sayin' that he got the weird message on this website...

AMC = Air M.ville Cap'n and BW = ************ not BuffettNews

DAMMIT!! READ BOY!!! READ!!!

Parrot Monkey · Post by **Parrot Monkey** » December 21, 2004 10:26 am

This really bytes.

Really, no joke, this is horrible as AMC and Bamafan put so much work into that site and had many unique features, such as the discography and the album art section. That one section featured many scans of record packages by AMC himself, and judging by the size of vinyl jackets, sleeves and inserts, it can be a long a tedious job to do.

Let’s hope all the eggs weren’t in one basket and he has most of the html and image files on his hard disk.

(((Buffett World)))

nycparrothead · Post by **nycparrothead** » December 21, 2004 10:54 am

I take the day off and you idiots go and break BW!!!!

Yo AMC!!! Drop us a line here dude and let us know what's happnin'!

frosted fins · Post by **frosted fins** » December 21, 2004 10:56 am

jr mint wrote:
Tiki Bar wrote:I don't visit much, but AMC put a lot of work into having a cool site. I feel bad for him and his guests, and hope there's an easy fix.
I agree he has put a whole lot of work into his site. Along with this one it is my favorite Buffett site.

No real easy fix I'm afraid. They had a field day with the php and html files. A good backed up restore is really the only way to get everything back. Plus if he doesn't wipe his server clean (i.e. format and reinstall) the hackers still have a back door to his box.

ph4ever · Post by **ph4ever** » December 21, 2004 11:00 am

Parrot Monkey wrote:This really bytes.

Really, no joke, this is horrible as AMC and Bamafan put so much work into that site and had many unique features, such as the discography and the album art section. That one section featured many scans of record packages by AMC himself, and judging by the size of vinyl jackets, sleeves and inserts, it can be a long a tedious job to do.

Let’s hope all the eggs weren’t in one basket and he has most of the html and image files on his hard disk.

(((Buffett World)))

agreed

(((((BW))))) (((((JOSH))))) (((((BAMA)))))

Nautical Squealer · Post by **Nautical Squealer** » December 21, 2004 11:02 am

Hey Pholks!

Let's hope it's a easy fix.

LaTda · Post by **LaTda** » December 21, 2004 11:07 am

Damn!!

I know he has backups, he had discussed them before~
I guess the damage would be from the last update to present date

(((BW)))

Key Lime Lee · Post by **Key Lime Lee** » December 21, 2004 11:10 am

Anybody have a link to a subpage?

Maybe it's just the default page...

Hopefully...

that sucks.

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » December 21, 2004 11:15 am

Key Lime Lee wrote:that sucks.

wLs.

Josh and Bama have obviously put a tremendous amount of work into building a really nice site.

Here's hoping they don't lose too much.