I am sorry to hear about this recent hack, and I really hope you guys bring your excellent site back online soon.
or as we say at home.... toi, toi, toi and good luck!

AWWWWWWWWW... I'm sorry to hear.

Johanne....is there anything I can do?

Wincusto went all gaga for me yesterday so I couldn't even comment here....

 

 

To the rest.....

'moron' comes under the heading of personal attack.  Personal attack will get you removed from this site.  There were/are ways of conveying the concept that ' a more frequent backup would have been wise', without insult.  No-one will be able enjoy a 'long thread' with only a short future due to inappropriate behaviour....

 

Pixtudio is already working full charge since yesterday night, all the losted files was allready replaced.

darn, remove me from the site... id appreciate that, thanks

seriously

Good to hear that, Renato...

Hacking of this kind should just be a capital offence.....would soon put a stop to the kiddies....and get them before they can breed....

A note about the topic, if not ontopic. It is generally accepted that announcing a hack is of benefit to the hackers themselves, and therefore unwise. Our friend here could easily be responsible and basking in his work.

Black hats are little sh*ts mostly, bragging about acts they didn't actually commit. If your site doesn't remain defaced long, then they rely on screenshots ( which are mostly faked ) or your announcing it to prove they aren't just blowing smoke. Best not to contribute to their 'glory' and just refer to such things as 'technical difficulties'.

Yes they have their moment of tarnished glory, but if more people become aware of the crimes the more likely it will be stopped. I understand the point of view of ignore and they will stop, and in some instances this is the case. However in this instance that is not the case, hackers need to be stopped and ignoring them won't help a bit. They will do worse things just to get attention.

....Yes, and it will be that *attention* that will be their downfall, hopefully.

I certainly agree with Fuzzy and Jafo....

Shoot 'em, hang 'em, then burn them at the stake! >

Honestly, though, I don't see how announcing hacks can help. They have their own culture, communities, and their own reinforcement, so no one's opinion here is going to sway them. One could announce the hack used, but again, that would be of as much benefit to the l33t types who read it as to the few server admins here. Spreading the word of their 'victory' just aids them in their quest for attention.

Just an opinion that is widely accepted and appears to thwart a lot of the reinforcement this type of filth get off on. I won't debate it further for fear of deviating from Topic.

Ah yes but by ignoring and not reinforcing we leave the back door open for something worse to sneak in. nevermind I am deviating from the topic. but then isn't the topic about hackers?

Unfortunately, there will always be hackers. Period. In a faint and warped sense of selfishness, I'm glad...because security and antivirus admin is a good chunk of my time at work and therefore job security.

Hackers, for lack of a better term, are so prevalent because all it takes is a set of software tools freely downloadable, and thousands of server "admins" that have no clue how to harden their systems. Heck, I guess I'm a hacker in the sense that I use all of the same tools and techniques as the bad guys to harden my networks and systems.

For clarity and so nobody gets their feathers all ruffled, this post is not directed at any one person or entity. There are a few cases where things are beyond the control of oneself. For instance, my web site is on my ISP's web servers. I have no control over security whatsoever. I've mailed them on vulnerabilities before and it's always fallen on deaf ears.


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Shame on those #£$%µ# hackers !!! >

I think they did the right thing by telling everyone that the site was hacked. Why lie about it? To prevent whoever hacked it from feeling victorious? That's nonsense.

If I were to hack PixTudio and tell all my friends about it and PixTudio would then say that they were having 'technical difficulties', it would confirm my hack was succesfull and it would make it sound like they have trouble dealing with it and had to resort to misleading statements.

On the other hand, stating that they were hacked sends out the message: "We were hacked. We'll make sure it won't happen again".


Word of advice, to 'lex and 'tog: keep your administration seperated from the Net.