Dear Abhishek, Any information from the officials as how this had happened and how the precautionary measures can be to prevent atleast this kind of vulnerability
With best regards Hempal Shrestha On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Abhishek Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > On 10/19/2011 07:20 PM, Nitesh Pandey wrote: > > Can somebody confirm how did they manage to hack into fossnepal's website? > As far as I know, fossnepal was on drupal, and wiki was based on wikimedia, > both of which is thought to be secure. How about chances of other sites on > the same shared host being hacked? > > On 19 October 2011 09:41, Abhishek Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 10/19/2011 09:31 AM, Abhishek Singh wrote: >> > Dear All, >> > This is to inform you that FOSS Nepal's Wiki portal at >> > http://wiki.fossnepal.org has been hacked/cracked into by some "4li". >> We >> > are taking necessary measure to bring the site back. >> > >> > Please be patient until we resolve the issue. Thank You. >> > >> Also that our website, http://www.fossnepal.org has been hacked/cracked >> into. >> >> -- >> Abhishek Singh >> FOSS Nepal Community >> http://wiki.fossnepal.org >> >> >> > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ > > Nitesh, > There are possibilities that the breach might have been caused > by vulnerability in other sites hosted on the same server. But we are > awaiting the official notice on what happened. As far as our website, I had > managed to secure everything till the point I knew. The server has been > compromised somehow. > > > -- > Abhishek Singh > FOSS Nepal Communityhttp://wiki.fossnepal.org > > -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
