* Links which are not safe for viewing at work are marked as “NSFW” *
The gist:
My buddy Rudy runs one of the many porn site YouTube clones, xxxuploads.com (NSFW). On Easter Sunday he woke up to all sorts of fun. His two media servers had been hacked and over 7500 videos were deleted. The only thing left on those subdomains were index pages entitled “STOP PORNO” with the below message and Muslim Prayer Call video embedded from YouTube:
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
No big deal. He could surely just restore everything from his backups, right? Wrong. His admin set them up wrong, so nothing had ever been backed up. Well, couldn’t he just do a restore? Nopers, those boxes were setup with ext3 filesystems. So, he had to start from scratch and all the sites that have pre-hack videos embedded from his site are screwed.
How it was done:
The sysadmin went through the logs and there was no evidence of anyone logging in via SSH or anything like that. His best guess is that they gained FTP access via a proftpd exploit.
There’s a huge difference between harmless internet trolling (which some retards consider art) and being a senseless, heartless, steaming pile of shit to people who are grieving. I just got a message on MySpace from my buddy Chelly about the latter…
I’ve emailed customer service before, and they seem unwilling/unable to care/do anything. whatever… i sent them an email earlier today, but i doubt they even read it.
i looked up one of the victims of monday’s massacre, and in her blog comments, found two posts i just couldn’t believe. yeah “freedom of speech” is great, and all that, but some things are just *morally* wrong.
any ideas? i just can’t stand the thought that this girl’s family might log in and see those comments. Here u go, check ‘em for yourself:
*Links removed (no sense in pointing other retards in that direction)
Seeing that Zango (I’d link to their Wikipedia article, but they keep editing it themselves) was a member of the Better Business Bureau was a big laugh from get-go. I came across that tidbit of info back in November when I saw a BBBOnline Reliability Program seal on Seekmo – one of Zango’s properties. Doing a quick search on TheBBB.org revealed that Zango was in fact a member back then. Not just regular members though, those asshats were in the President’s Club of the BBB!
“We’re beginning to wonder whether George Bush is going to get around to declaring in a State of the Union speech that Zango belongs to the Axis of Evil.”
- The Guardian
How exactly does a company with such a super-duper-scumtastic reputation gain membership to the BBB? And, what retard over there approved their application for the President’s Club? It’s not like they hadn’t already been outed for being downright thieves and interweb hoodlums while operating under the name 180solutions.
You’re on MySpace (cause that’s where all the fake profiles of hot chicks hang out) and upon entering a forum thread… BAM! You’re greeted by wall-to-wall hardcore scat that makes the infamous TubGirl picture look like a garden full of tulips. And, it’s not just posted in the thread – it’s covering your entire screen and the thread is hidden behind it. You click your back button and see another thread entitled “Don’t go into any of the threads right now – something is horribly wrong”. Naturally, you jump in there to see what in the hell is going on. In there, it’s explained that a script kiddie who’s part of a MySpace troll group is using some very basic CSS to overrun all the threads with that… crap. You click the reply button because you want to add your two cents about this lameness and… Double BAM! Instead of a field opening up to enter your reply, you’re on a web page outside of MySpace. This time you get your eyes filled by a flash loop of a transsexual getting banged up the poop chute while in reverse cowboy – giving you the oh-so-lovely view of his/her meat pistol (penis/dick/schlong/whatever) bouncing up and down. It wasn’t the infamous Meat Spin, but very similar in nature. This not-so-cute little trick was being achieved by overlaying the entire thread with a clear .gif and linking it to that outside page.