It won’t do any good, I have found it a number of times and it is dial up or random, many times from a proxy or a hacked server.
I know of about 12-15 sites on our servers “lord” has hacked, every time it has been from an outdated web application or even sometimes an unknown hole that later got patched after giving the logs.
Well the only way to really prevent them is to be a freak on updates, make sure you have the latest updates for php/asp/asp.net app.
however the downsides to that are the updates manytimes bring bugs and when something is “just working” why change it, then you get hit with a hack A catch 22
unless you have the same software on other domains, that will be the only domain affected, it happened on 7/30/2006 I am going to get details for you, I will send via PM, if you want to make pubilc it may be good for education of others
Basically I think you have pretty much stated that FrontPage extensions can be exploited due to certain vulnerabilities. Although I am a proponent and heavy user of FrontPage..I will be glad when Expression is released to the public as rumor has it there will be no more extensions. As a matter of fact Microsoft has pulled the download from their site of the 2002 extensions. (Although that has many people in an uproar due to the many 1000’s of sites and hosts that use them)
Personally though I believe Expression will leap-frog over Dreamweaver when it is released..it really is very cool..and all of the deprecated things like tags etc. will be gone..producing everything via .css and compliant coding as well.
Although I agree it would be great to find a way to ban this kind of nonsense..I just don’t see it happening. You would think those fools would want to turn their abilities into generating some money..rather then messing around with other people like that.
Besides we can’t really go after them until we finish the job with lawyers 1st! :rockon:
2 of my clients sites were hacked, one yesterday and one today from same hackers. Both sites were on win8. What worries me is they managed to change CP passwords.
Both sites didn’t have any CMS, forum or other scripts. One site had plane html files and other asp files.
How is this possible?