Hacking

[Eric E.]

Hello, recently, I have this friend who likes to threaten me a lot to hack me and stuff. I bought the domain and everything and he's telling me what to do or he will hack my site. It's like he's trying to make it his own site. I already know he can hack my site because he's done it like 20 times before and I don't know how to stop him. He continuously does it and I contact my host and vBulletin but, they don't do anything other then tell me to keep my information private which has nothing to do with stopping him from Ddosing my site or other stuff. Do you have an idea on how to stop him from this? Sorry if this is in the wrong section. Thank You and have a nice day!

Eric E.

[Lynne]

A dos attack is not 'being hacked'. They are different things. Hacking is usually meant to mean that they get access to your site/database somehow. A dos attack is just overwhelming the server - which is why vbulletin can do absolutely nothing about it.

When you complain to your host and tell them who is doing it, are they willing to look into it?

(And you call this guy a friend? Seriously?)

[Eric E.]

Well, actually, sometimes....he has edited my Index.php into stupid stuff just as porn and stuff. We get mad at each other for like 2 days then we're friends again and made again and friends again and the same pattern goes on until eternity, Lol.

Eric E.

[Boofo]

Looks like you need to re-evaluate your friendship.

The server people should be able to block the DOS attacks with a firewall of some sort. I would think they would want to stop that if it is their server.

If he is editing your php files, you need to change the FTP passwords as well as your CPanel login so he no longer has access to your server.

[nighthalk]

With friends like that you don't need enemies.

First I would suggest changing all your passwords to a random string of upper and lower case and numerical strings.

Remember not to make your passwords your favorite color or sons name etc.
Second I would find a new web host as it don't sound like things are really secure.
Plus if he hacked you before he could of uploaded a php shell of some sort.

If this is your personal server I would suggest doing a few things to apache.
Install mod_security
Install mod_evasive

I would also suggest at least running some sort of firewall.
I could go on and on but I don't know what your set up is.

[wd4x4]

He could have also hacked your home system and gets info that way.

[RedDevil]

For a start i would block his entire ip range using the IP block system, known proxy servers should also be blocked im sure a list is available.

For your home system try peerguardian and add his ip range also complain to your host they should have things in place for this sort of bad behaviour.

If that fails then complaint to his internet provider.

[xxalexkimxx]

To stop from DDOS you gatta do is use HTML index page as index.html not index.php
Because they can only attack with .php. In index.html you can just simply write the re-direct code to your forums site. Example: http://www.mysite.com/forums/

[Dismounted]

You don't stop a DDoS attack with any kind of page. If they can reach a page - they've attacked you. A DDoS attack tries to fill out your bandwidth pipe so that your server is overloaded, or the site is very, very slow for users.