Greetings Y'all !
Ok before we get out the tar and feathers and start looking at each other please remember this. THE SERVER was attacked NOT this site.
The server may have many such sites and trust me, this site is not the only site on that server.
The attack may have nothing to do with this site nor anyone on it. This site was affected because it uses the server that was affected.
Read the email that David received.....
Ok everyone, the website was down for a few days due to malicious acts of others. Here is the email msg received from our web host:
"Dear Valued .....Customer,
This past weekend many of you and our own employees as well may have
experienced what appeared to be a hack or breach of Omnis security but
really was not. What has happened was all accounts that
had UNIX permission for their Group and Other categories set to 777 or
read & write enabled for the Group and Others permissions, allowed for
a customer who ran a particular script to be able to delete those
files. These files will be restored ASAP.
As a result, increased security is being put in place that will prevent
this type of attack from occurring again regardless of file permissions
placed on your files. This is not to say that you should not be mindful
of your file permissions as they are very important to insuring your
site is not vulnerable to attack.
Please let us know if you have any questions or are in need to further
explanation in this matter."
The Dear Valued Customer part is David. He owns this site and as such pays for it. ( By the way THANKS DAVID! For offering us a place to play literally at your expense.)
In closing I would like to again state, whereas I love a good public hanging when the evidence is in, I still have an aversion to a lunch mob that goes off half cocked.
DID I SAY HALF COCKED?????
Bla ha haha ha! Chill out y'all, it may have nothing to do with anyone here. If it does, hell...tracking this kind of crap is easy.
