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My forum has been constantly turning on and off..... so now i receive this email
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Alright f**ker..
Here's the deal. You don't want your site going down anymore? You're going to have to do 1 thing.
Give me access to your cPanel for the day. And tomorrow I'll remove my account that has all admin rights. Deal?
How I've been doing it.. hehe.. well, I have a hidden account on your database that has all admin rights. All I want to do is get in your cPanel to copy your database and I'll be on my way.
The way this works is.. you have a lot of users. You'll never find me in the 200,000something users you have. So.. therefore, you need me to give you the account I have so you can delete it. NOW.. replacing your database will not work. For I have a program on my desktop that gives me admin access to any vbulletin forum I want. You want your site safe? Well.. give me your cPanel and we'll call it even. You can change your cPanel password tomorrow.
He keeps turning it on and off how can i put an end to this!!
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If this guy was in the DB he wouldn't need CPanel access as the DB is all he wants. If he had Admin CP access, he would lock everyone out until he gets what he wants. The clown is running a script somewhere that is toggling the site off and on. If this guy had any real access at all he would be showing what he could do. He wants the DB to get whatever settings he can so he can do some more scripts. If all he has done so far is toggle the site off and off then that is where he needs to be stopped. And no matter what he does, do NOT give him anything.
You are so right! I wasn't thinking clearly about the overall picture of what was going on. I think if this were my site, I'd close it down and delete all my files and put the site back up with a backup from a few days ago.
You are so right! I wasn't thinking clearly about the overall picture of what was going on. I think if this were my site, I'd close it down and delete all my files and put the site back up with a backup from a few days ago.
He's just running "kiddie scripts" is all. I know if I was a kid with the kiddie script mind-set what I would do if I had access to someone's db. He wouldn't be asking for something he already has access to. Your suggestion is the best way to go at this point.
so basically there is no way to protect yourself against this type of thing - so the culprit wins once again if he has to change his files etc.
Surely there must be some protection from this sort of stuff out there.
Remember this affects all of us in the long run not just fordsho
Well i just finished upping the new files and well everything seems good for now... i lost my design and some other stuff but ill up those later on. but these guys are serious man i have a fairly decent number of members and what not and this guy just decides to take it from me..... i allready had someone steal my database when it was at 180k... that sucked big time.
Chances are the kid found some vulnerability in a hack somewhere. It might even be one he helped to write and set up for this. This is an isolated case and we don't know all of the details.
Well, he didn't get what he was after. And apparently he doesn't have that much access or he would have done more damage. You are lucky this time. If he might have had any other details, now would be a good time to reset all passwords, FTP, ADMIN and MOD CPs. etc.
Some idiot screwing with me. Details »»
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02-26-2008, 05:24 PM
