Umm…TechCrunch? Defacement Two in 24 Hours
Less than 24 hours from the last web site defacement, TechCrunch has been defaced again early this morning by the same cracker(s) responsible for yesterday’s attack. Whatever preventative measures were taken yesterday (WordPress upgrade, HTTP authentication for wp-admin) have not blocked the attacker’s access to modify TechCrunch’s content, as this morning the attacker left a profane message on top of the homepage for Michael Arrington as well as a few media outlets like Yahoo and the BBC. At this point TechCrunch should perhaps be ensuring that there is no uploaded shell on the server the site is hosted on.
