looked at the akciddento site earlier and lo and behold,
it’s been hacked…

well well, how clever… it got hacked and some >k3wL d0odz got his name of the front page of someone elses website. wow, that’s difficult, what a hero you must really be.

somewhat annoyed as you can imagine but mostly my own fault, there’s a vulnerability that was patched but obviously not completely locked. my own laziness i guess.
but then in a way it’s like blaming myself for not putting bars on my fireplaces to stop people coming down the chimney

not too much hassle. restored this and that, cleaned up the other and back online. the logs from the server show the ip address of origination of the hack, if you can call it a hack… it’s more like a lame SCRIPT KIDDIE ‘look at me’ thing. puts me in mind of 1.2l vauxhall novas with Halfords bonnet scoops on. it’s a uk based isp so that gives me one of three possibilities.

1 . it’s the IP address of the HAXXOR.
2 . it’s the IP address of a zombie machine that’s been hacked
3 . the ip’s been spoofed and I’ll never track them down.

although number 3 is more likely, number 2 is least likely and number 1 is a fair possiblity. either way i’ve decided – just as an experiment you understand – to see what the law actually says about this. hacking into computers is a crime. altering & deleting data and defacement is basically malicious damage. this is a more serious crime.
i wonder what they’ll have to say.
i had a chat with the tech guys at the ISP this evening and although they’re evening shift and not too interested in a ‘what has it got to do with us’ kind of way, their attitiude changed completely when i explained that one of their customers had attacked my property and I was going to prosecute. 😉

i’ll keep you posted.