Dear All, The foss Nepal wiki was hacked because of some vulnerable file permission in the server. I hope everything is solved now as the server company has restored everything from backup.
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Hempal Shrestha <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 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/ > -- Warm Regards, Sagun Dhakhwa mobile: +977 985 11 2 88 32 -- 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/
