17.Nov.2011 The Most Common Type Of Hack
You may visit a website and see something like the following:
How did this happen? ‘Hacked By’ is a common defacement using the attacker’s name.
Most likely, the site was running a common piece of software designed to make life easy for the administrator of a site. This could be WordPress, Drupal, Vbulletin or many other examples.
This software is not necessarily insecure, but like anything, if the software is not updated or incorrectly installed then eventually the software will be compromised. Especially, as on the internet everything is in the firing line 24 hours a day.
The nature of the software, ‘easy life for the administrator’ does not help itself really. By its very definition it will attract ‘non-geeks‘ to publish websites whereas they would not if they had to code from scratch. Non-geeks are not generally aware that sites need updating nor are they aware that things like file and folder permissions matter. All these are security issues that people can exploit.
Generally a site hack is not maliciously aimed at the site owner. It’s more a game. There are sites where compromised sites are listed in a kind of high score chart. Most of these attacks are drive-by attacks. A robot has found your site with a particular vulnerability and has automatically exploited it.
Most hacks are like the above image, site defacements. Some are nastier, they will hide javascript in your site (that to all intents and purposes looks legitimate) that links to a remote site the attacker controls. This site will automatically attempt to download a virus or trojan to the visitor’s machine.
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