Comments on: Umm…TechCrunch? Defacement Two in 24 Hours http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/01/umm-techcrunch-defacement-two-in-24-hours/ Information security, a little slower...a little deeper Tue, 15 May 2012 11:55:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Popular News 2010 » Blog Archive » Newsweek Reports Zombie Invasion http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/01/umm-techcrunch-defacement-two-in-24-hours/comment-page-1/#comment-10950 Popular News 2010 » Blog Archive » Newsweek Reports Zombie Invasion Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:31:08 +0000 http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=3211#comment-10950 <p>[...] Umm…TechCrunch? Defacement Two in 24 Hours [...]</p> [...] Umm…TechCrunch? Defacement Two in 24 Hours [...]

]]> By: Adrian Otto http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/01/umm-techcrunch-defacement-two-in-24-hours/comment-page-1/#comment-6649 Adrian Otto Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:09:38 +0000 http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=3211#comment-6649 <p>I work at Rackspace. Our analysis to date has not shown any correlation between File Manager and WordPress or any other application exploits. Please contact us for more info about your specific applications. To reach me, email support@rackspacecloud.com and ask for Adrian Otto.</p> I work at Rackspace. Our analysis to date has not shown any correlation between File Manager and WordPress or any other application exploits. Please contact us for more info about your specific applications. To reach me, email support@rackspacecloud.com and ask for Adrian Otto.

]]> By: Prefect http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/01/umm-techcrunch-defacement-two-in-24-hours/comment-page-1/#comment-6623 Prefect Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:21:45 +0000 http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=3211#comment-6623 <p>@RackSpace Cloud User - I spoke to someone at RackSpace as well as checked out other sources and I can't find anything but conjecture to support what you're saying (one blog points out that they think a lot of WordPress sites that were defaced were hosted at RackSpace, one blog publishes an open letter to RackSpace but still thinks the vulnerability was a WordPress problem).</p> <p>Do you have any further information?</p> @RackSpace Cloud User – I spoke to someone at RackSpace as well as checked out other sources and I can’t find anything but conjecture to support what you’re saying (one blog points out that they think a lot of WordPress sites that were defaced were hosted at RackSpace, one blog publishes an open letter to RackSpace but still thinks the vulnerability was a WordPress problem).

Do you have any further information?

]]> By: Rackspace Cloud User http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/01/umm-techcrunch-defacement-two-in-24-hours/comment-page-1/#comment-6566 Rackspace Cloud User Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:37:32 +0000 http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=3211#comment-6566 <p>TechCrunch is not on a "box" at RackSpace -- it is hosted on RackSpace Cloud Sites -- and this hack - as well as hundreds of others were via a vulnerability in the RackSpace Cloud Sites web-based file manager.</p> <p>The saps at RackSpace Cloud know as much about security as they do about the difference between fake-"fanatical" support and actual tech support (were stuff is actually done, instead of just talked about).</p> TechCrunch is not on a “box” at RackSpace — it is hosted on RackSpace Cloud Sites — and this hack – as well as hundreds of others were via a vulnerability in the RackSpace Cloud Sites web-based file manager.

The saps at RackSpace Cloud know as much about security as they do about the difference between fake-”fanatical” support and actual tech support (were stuff is actually done, instead of just talked about).

]]> By: Prefect http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/01/umm-techcrunch-defacement-two-in-24-hours/comment-page-1/#comment-6365 Prefect Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:16:04 +0000 http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=3211#comment-6365 <p>m0rla was (probably still is) the handle of a hacker famous for breaking into a server handling contest registrations in a hacking contest years ago.</p> <p>Still I haven't seen any actual attribution to him, the TechCrunch comment by itself isn't much.</p> m0rla was (probably still is) the handle of a hacker famous for breaking into a server handling contest registrations in a hacking contest years ago.

Still I haven’t seen any actual attribution to him, the TechCrunch comment by itself isn’t much.

]]> By: wish http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/01/umm-techcrunch-defacement-two-in-24-hours/comment-page-1/#comment-6364 wish Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:44:17 +0000 http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=3211#comment-6364 <p>what about this comment from techcrunch.com?</p> <p>http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/techcrunch-hacked/#comment-627</p> what about this comment from techcrunch.com?

http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/techcrunch-hacked/#comment-627

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