[NetBehaviour] can you help us translate these hackers?

Thu Aug 14 18:56:59 CEST 2008

Wonderful post, Marc, worth to be blogged out in different platforms!! :) We
are now thinking to change from Joomla to static HTML sites or PHP but a lot
of the dynamic content should be gone. Sad dilemma! We try to protect the
password of the "super administrator" using a random tool who change the
password every day, to difficult to the hackers to go in.
I love hacking as concept but I hate people hacking in our activists sites,
they should aim to Pentagon, KGB, Wall Street, CIA and Mossad, and leave us
activists people alone :)
Ana

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 6:45 PM, marc garrett <marc.garrett at furtherfield.org
> wrote:

> Hi Ana,
>
> Over a period over 12 years now, we have had so many different problems.
> One of the main issues in regard to server vulnerability for us, has
> usually been whether things have been done when certain individuals said
> that they had done them. At the time, you think everything was all dealt
> with, and then it takes an emergency such as a diskdrive dying on the
> server or a hack to see how things really are.
>
> One of the problems we have had, is to do with the fact that we so many
> different things on one server. Some of the projects (artware)
> themselves can cause problems, leaving the server open to hacks.
>
> LIke you mentioned, blogs can be pretty awful. This is more problematic
> due to spam. We sometimes get spambots hammering the blogs with relays
> of rubbish. weighing down the server till it crashes. This can sometimes
> happen with Netbehaviour as well. FIlling up mailboxes...
>
> The other thing, is that we have other people on the server, who have
> their own projects - they can sometimes leave telnet open, and a hacker
> finds their way in this way.
>
> This time - they managed to hack themselves an admin password onto the
> furtherfield cms and actually change the content itself. The funny thing
> is - I could see them doing it as I looked at the interface, before my
> very eyes today. So, it was caught immediately. It could of been much
> worse.
>
> One of the main problems for us is that, we are a victim of our own
> success. We've got an awful lot of people using all the different types
> of platforms, connected to furtherfield, such as furthernoise,
> vs-studios, ff-blog & netbehaviour, this increases the amount of things
> that could go wrong. Furthernoise & Furtherfield are hand coded, made to
> spec PHP CMS, then you've got the blogs which are mainly drupal, then
> you've got vs-studio which is a hybrid adhoc of flash, html & perl
> scripting etc, as well as other stuff all on one server.
>
> One of the solutions, which we will be dealing with in the future will
> be to make al the systems drupal - those which are not actual artware
> projects that is...
>
> The main issue is working with people though. Communication and follow
> through are the main key issues for us. This is because Ruth, myself &
> Neil used to everything ourselves, but because times have changed with
> other projects needing attention, and there are others out there who are
> more highly skilled than we are now, plus we cannot do everything -
> other factors come into play...
>
> The other problem is managing this chaotic, networked community of beasts!
>
> I can't complain - I love the communities that I am part of and would
> not be involved in anything else:-)
>
> marc
>
>
> i Marc and Ruth. Our green site Ekopolitan, www.ekopolitan.com is hacked
> a few times every week, they find loopholes in our system and hijack our
> databases and our registers. My friend Mats think it's a try to use our
> site to store pictures and send them in massive mail attacks. Our site
> is made in Joomla and it seems Joomla is very vulnerable to hackers. We
> turned off our blog system and our comments and it went down. Do you
> think the hackers who attack Furtherfield use the same method and sneak
> in the site through the blogs and the comments?
> Ana
>
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:42 PM, marc garrett
> <marc.garrett at furtherfield.org> wrote:
>
>    Hi Renee,
>
>    Thanks for the support,
>
>    As many know, we have been hacked a few times already. This
>    (thankfully), is not as bad as the others - we have isolated the
>    problems. There are other complications (as usual) but we are gradually
>    dealing with them as well. The site is stable, but data will not be 100%
>    restored until tomorrow...
>
>    wishing you well.
>
>    marc
>
>
>    > Hey Marc, Ruth and other furtherfielders,
>    >
>    > Hang in there and much strength getting things up and rolling again.
>    >
>    > Renee
>    > On 14 Aug 2008, at 14:29, Ruth Catlow wrote:
>    >
>    >> hi Netbehaviourists,
>    >>
>    >> Furtherfield is currently under attack.
>    >>
>    >> Searches point us to this URL
>    >> http://www.3asfh.net/vb/showthread.php?p=607361
>    >>
>    >> Can anyone give us enough of a translation to understand more about
>    >> what's behind this?
>    >>
>    >> cheers
>    >> Ruth
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