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Redirection to a porn site

 
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Janick
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 17, 2004 1:06 pm    Post subject: Redirection to a porn site Reply with quote

For a few hours, verificationguild.com was being redirected to a porn site. I wish to express my appologies if anyone was offended but it was apparently the subject of a hijack from a Russian hacker.

I have fixed the redirection problem - but not the vulnerability that has allowed the redirection in the first place. I will take care of it as soon as possible.

It is possible that the hackers have inserted more redirection commands in the website database. I will try to find out but, in the meantime, if you find you are directed somewhere outside of verificationguild.com, please let me know ASAP at janick@bergeron.com - Thank you.


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drchip
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 17, 2004 8:57 pm    Post subject: Re: Redirection to a porn site Reply with quote

Janick wrote:
For a few hours, verificationguild.com was being redirected to a porn site. I wish to express my appologies if anyone was offended but it was apparently the subject of a hijack from a Russian hacker.


I'd often heard if said that verification is hard, but I wasn't expecting it would be that hard.

( Very Happy for the humour challenged )

Dr Chip


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 19, 2004 1:18 am    Post subject: Re: Redirection to a porn site Reply with quote

Janick wrote:
I have fixed the redirection problem - but not the vulnerability that has allowed the redirection in the first place


The vulnerability has now been fixed and I have verified that there are no other redirections in the database.

If you are a PHP-Nuke site administrator, feel free to contact me about the problem and how I fixed it.

Again, my appologies for the disruption.
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