I dont think its back up yet.
All the links are showing this -
Sorry, we couldn't find the page you were looking for. Please return to the homepage.
but the home page is up looks like and so are all the ads :) (funnily enough even on broken pages the ads are not broken)
Techcrunch hacked again
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Re: Techcrunch hacked again
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
They get hacked twice in a row, day after day has become the new routine. Someone there is totally doing their job you think?
Getting hacked twice in short time doesn't automatically mean incompetence. There could be literal dozens ways of entry - including all the third party javascript services they run. Also we don't even know if the attack was done using a 0day exploit. A sign of incompetence would be if they had their whole database wiped out and they did'nt have any backup (ala codinghorror.com) or they got hacked exactly the same way…
twitter gets hacked more than this? source ?
Re: Techcrunch hacked again
#33Saying the first hack was not a hack, it was just a "bad file uploaded to comments section" is the funniest joke I've ever heard.
Re: Techcrunch hacked again
#34Someone working at Techcrunch isn't qualified for their job.
Since there still seems to be a debate about exactly what weakness was exploited, that conclusion is unwarranted.
For that matter, a truly thorough cracker (with more time than constructiveness) might go to the trouble to identify more than one weak point, hold some in reserve, and exploit them sequentially over time - either to offer a more depressing experience to the site owner or to discredit the site's technical team [taking advantage of people willing to jump to your conclusion :) ]
Re: Techcrunch hacked again
#35Bad guys only need to know one way in. Good guys need to know all the ways in.
This isn't very comforting when applied to national security issues like WMD terrorism...
EDIT: I've been watching too much 24...
Re: Techcrunch hacked again
#36Someone working at Techcrunch isn't qualified for their job.
Since there still seems to be a debate about exactly what weakness was exploited, that conclusion is unwarranted. For that matter, a truly thorough cracker (with more time than constructiveness) might go to the trouble to identify more than one weak point, hold some in reserve, and exploit them sequentially over time - either to offer a more depressing experience to the site owner or to discredit the site's technical…
If there is more than one weak point, do they even need "conclusion-jumpers" to discredit their technical team? Assuming of course that it's not more than one 0day.
Re: Techcrunch hacked again
#37At televised sporting events, a prankster, usually drunk, will sometimes run onto the field to make a spectacle. Yet, the broadcast always cuts away, so as not to encourage the behavior even more in the future. Perhaps we could consider a similar policy on submissions and upvotes about site-defacements? The hack will already get plenty of attention from the normal visitors of the affected site, and coverage in other…
I think there could be some cheering going on given the love-hate relationship between TechCrunch and the HN crowd, but I don't think anyone wishes them ill.
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#38You do have to hand it to Arrington to run an interstitial welcome.html ad on there today based on the volume of traffic coming in to check out the hacking story . . .
I absolutely dislike techcrunch, but the idea that they somehow took advantage of this situation and put up that ad it ludicrous. I can tell you from experience that interstitial ads are not done on the spot out of no where. They are high paying ad campaigns that is negotiated well in advance with (usually) only a single type of product/services. I don't visit techcrunch often (its actually hard-coded banned in my ho…
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Re: Techcrunch hacked again
#39At televised sporting events, a prankster, usually drunk, will sometimes run onto the field to make a spectacle. Yet, the broadcast always cuts away, so as not to encourage the behavior even more in the future. Perhaps we could consider a similar policy on submissions and upvotes about site-defacements? The hack will already get plenty of attention from the normal visitors of the affected site, and coverage in other…
Idealistic. But not practical.
Sporting events have just one broadcaster. One person who controls what you see. Online, everyone is a broadcaster. That changes the game. Not everyone will agree to such a policy. And you just need one player to disagree to make it impractical.
Case in point: 9/11 attacks were shown on TV repeatedly - because there was more than 1 player who could do the broadcasting.
Re: Techcrunch hacked again
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Getting hacked twice in short time doesn't automatically mean incompetence. There could be literal dozens ways of entry - including all the third party javascript services they run. Also we don't even know if the attack was done using a 0day exploit. A sign of incompetence would be if they had their whole database wiped out and they did'nt have any backup (ala codinghorror.com) or they got hacked exactly the same way…
twitter gets hacked more than this? source ?
techcrunch is usually a good source for everything that happens in twitter, including hacks