Comments on: Hacked TM website!

By: matamata

matamata — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 03:47:26 +0000

wanted to ask you a quick question about your SpyKidz incident and let you know a few things.

First – SpyKidz is a group that meet on IRC – efnet Brazil – and you can find them in #spykidz

I’m 23 and have followed your work with HTMLarea for a long time, updating my own private CMS with your amazing WYSIWYG editor (very very nice …). I’ve been developing sites for years, own my own web hosting company and host all of my clients.

Over a year ago, I woke up to my phone ringing off the hook – every site on my server had been ‘0wned’ apparently. I found out about the zone-h trophy list, spykids and all of this junk.

I’m so sorry to hear that this happened to you  — the .log problem actually screwed up my server as it corrupted several necessary Linux files and I lost my ability to SSH into my machine. I hired help, who couldn’t fix it and still charged. The problem cost me over $500!!!!

Oh –

And I tracked down the ‘spykid’ who cracked my sites. He’s 14 and lives in Brazil. I explained to him that I was part of a cracking group – Damaged Cybernetics, when I was 16 – 18, how I’d been involved in the beginnings of the emulation ‘scene’ when it was a group of open source developers who all hung out on IRC, and how I totally know what being a script kiddy and hanging out on IRC is – I know what being bored is like.

The server was hacked 4 times and we didn’t know how to solve it by the way – my hosting provider, who I was and am still on personal terms with couldn’t figure out how to patch it – I sought help – finally I switched to 1&1 Internet and haven’t had the problem since – maybe their RedHat 9 servers came with a patched copy of Apache? Maybe the newer versions of PLESK Control Panel come with patched copies of Apache 2?

Your unfortunate situation really really really hit home and I feel for you. I had 80 sites go out on me – 4 times in the same two weeks. And part of the problem was that zone-h.org posted the exploit, so another group came along and posted profanity.

Just wanted to share with you!

By: Iskandar

Iskandar — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:05:41 +0000

I think they should give that 1 million to the hacker. After all he is “using” tm products too.

By: sham

sham — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 05:22:37 +0000

There must be alot of hole on their site..They deserved it because not taking care about website security..

By: azurt

azurt — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 03:41:33 +0000

i cant see anything changed.. i cant see this webpage was hacked..

By: ZeMMs

ZeMMs — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 03:16:57 +0000

Well Izzatz13 and colbert, to think TM and TMNet as the *same* company is wrong. Because their not. TM (Telekom Malaysia) is the PARENT company of TMNet. Whatever belongs to TM does not necessarily belong to TMNet. The hacked website is a TM’s website, not TMNet’s. Take Celcom for example. Celcom is also a child company to TM (just like TMNet).. but would you blame Celcom for TM’s hacked site? Just because TMNet has the word “TM” in it does not mean they are the same company…

By: colbert

colbert — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:41:35 +0000

its time those TMnet guys get their act together. Their router was having a big DOS attack something ago at their cyberjaya site and it also knocked down my personal site….sheeshh…I hate redtape

By: farking

farking — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:28:00 +0000

spykids is a brazilian hacker..not malaysian

By: Izzatz13

Izzatz13 — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 06:54:12 +0000

Well actually its the same company rite. Even the high tech company like microsoft already been hacked. Compare to tmnet? Duh…

Anyway who hacked it? Should be proud of this new comer hackers. Malaysian hackers. Go Go Go…!!!

By: ZeMMs

ZeMMs — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:02:19 +0000

Errr.. mohdismail.. don’t confuse TM and TMNet ..

By: mohdismail

mohdismail — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:17:44 +0000

haha…ape la tmnut…