All this is true. From time to time, these things happen to businesses that do not take security as bread and butter. Although, I call that statement incorrect as well, because security firms themselves get targeted most of the time.
My question(s) would be: why are people sloppy by nature when it comes to security? Why is security still considered as a blanket as opposed to the core of any system? PS: I am totally wrong and I know that ;) Thank you. Shyaam On Jan 7, 2012, at 3:48 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > http://bolt.thexfil.es/84e9h!t was an interesting link - it > demonstrated the pwnage. > > It looks like these folks gained access via PHP. Stratfor was using a > Linux based system system, but PHP was version 1.8 > from 2009 (perhaps with some back patches). Current version of PHP is > 5.3.8 (http://www.php.net/). > > O really? PHP 1.8? how would you compile that on a modern linux distro? > how would you run drupal on top of it? > > // $Id: default.settings.php,v 1.8.2.4 2009/09/14 12:59:18 goba Exp $ > that is a line from the default drupal config file. > > I agree that the php app was the most likely source of the intrusion, I would > guess that they didn't kept the drupal core and the contrib modules > up-to-date, and they were owned through some old vulnerability. > > -- > Ferenc Kovács > @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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