Astalavista.com hacked, including details
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Astalavista.com hacked, including details
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Re: Astalavista.com hacked, including details
#2Page as it appeared on June 5, 2009 12:15AM EDT:
http://pastebin.com/f751e9f5b
The post is a little low on details concerning the actual exploit used, but there's pretty massive carnage. Let's hope the admins have offsite backups.
For those who don't know of Astalavista, it was a popular website for "hackers" with relatively low-quality content. It started in 1994, and was one of the first search engines for computer security information. It hosted software exploits, and quickly degenerated into a forum for sharing software cracks, spyware, and virii.
Being a security-related website, you'd expect the owners to be a little more careful, which is why this is interesting.
Re: Astalavista.com hacked, including details
#3Its the (other) hacker news this week on HN.
Re: Astalavista.com hacked, including details
#4Its the (other) hacker news this week on HN.
Indeed. I figured this particular piece of news would interest both types of hackers, as it contains technical details you wouldn't expect from a standard defacement. It's rather similar to the urge to rubberneck at a car crash: it's both horrific and exciting at the same time.
If my assumption is incorrect and no one is interested, I will humbly tuck my metaphoric tail between my legs and refrain from posting such things again.
Re: Astalavista.com hacked, including details
#5Its the (other) hacker news this week on HN.
Indeed. I figured this particular piece of news would interest both types of hackers, as it contains technical details you wouldn't expect from a standard defacement. It's rather similar to the urge to rubberneck at a car crash: it's both horrific and exciting at the same time. If my assumption is incorrect and no one is interested, I will humbly tuck my metaphoric tail between my legs and refrain from posting such t…
That type of respect for quality makes HN great.
Re: Astalavista.com hacked, including details
#6well that wasn't very nice
Re: Astalavista.com hacked, including details
#7Page as it appeared on June 5, 2009 12:15AM EDT: http://pastebin.com/f751e9f5b The post is a little low on details concerning the actual exploit used, but there's pretty massive carnage. Let's hope the admins have offsite backups. For those who don't know of Astalavista, it was a popular website for "hackers" with relatively low-quality content. It started in 1994, and was one of the first search engines for computer…
hell, i tend to find any reasonably detailed description of the process of exploiting something to be pretty interesting.
gives a fairly good idea of how to not make the same mistakes, if applicable.
Re: Astalavista.com hacked, including details
#8This somewhat concludes the whole point of the hax0rs:
Quote: "plaintext passwords? yes, those so called "security professionals" who charge you $6.66 / month to register at their hack-proof portal, save your passwords in plaintext... brilliant!"
Re: Astalavista.com hacked, including details
#9That was painful to "watch" happen to them. Lesson learned. Do NOT f* with hackers...
Re: Astalavista.com hacked, including details
#10Page as it appeared on June 5, 2009 12:15AM EDT: http://pastebin.com/f751e9f5b The post is a little low on details concerning the actual exploit used, but there's pretty massive carnage. Let's hope the admins have offsite backups. For those who don't know of Astalavista, it was a popular website for "hackers" with relatively low-quality content. It started in 1994, and was one of the first search engines for computer…
Brutal indeed. Not only did they expose all aspects of astalavista, they actually trashed and dropped everything.
As bad as astalavista is, is it right to reciprocate and trash their server? It seems as if the hacker sunk to their level.
Are there legal ramifications to something like this?