Just one word: wow

Submitted by princesstaty on 25 December, 2006 - 01:38.

WOW..I just tried to open this webpage: http://www.claro.com.ni and I never imagined what I was gonna see----> "HACKERED BY SATAN" and then behind it: "Live free is a Right//Nicaragua" and I say...how can a multinational super zillionary company like CLARO,S.A, not have good webmasters or Comp. Ing. that could avoid that hackering? almost 700 million people in Nicaragua use this webpage and their services, and it's not only the part that we can't use the sms,text messenger or whatever info u wanna get...it's the "little detail" that says: "BY SATAN"?!?!?!?! how insane is that!?!?!?!? :-O

I don't know but that's one reason why most of us NLers are hesintant about building closer relationships among each other in this community...true to me, the fear of getting our info hackered,etc..

what do you guys think about this?

Take care,

TaTy

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Sites are hacked all the time

Submitted by zenpilgrim on 25 December, 2006 - 06:27.

If you check the site now, the hosts have taken it down (most likely to fix it and bring it back up).This type of hack doesn't bother me much. I see it as the digital equivalent of tagging buildings with graffiti and it will force the hosts to fix the hole. For those of us who make their living in this world, this type of hack can be entertaining to come across (until it happens to you). (and yes, sometimes we are geeks who sit and laugh when we find a competitors site was defaced...LOL)

The size of the company really has little to do with whether they can have their site hacked. Many companies are slow to install patches to fix known holes in software. Some have good reasons (at least in their minds) to not install the patch, some are just lazy.

If you want to get an idea as to how big this IT security problem is, just check out Astalavista Security Group every so often.

My bigger concern is the how they control access to the stuff inside their firewalls (both digital access and physical access), anti-virus software across the entire enterprise, and running patches there.

This is often where you hear people lifting up the pluses and minuses of Linux over Windows...but there is a good chance that the hacked web server was a Linux box. One never knows and sometimes (but it's rare) an exploit found on one system will work on the other.

If you want to worry about your private info, be as concerned with someone walking off with a laptop used by your bank and the paper in your mailbox or trashcan that has all that same info.