Welcome back mudclub

[Saffy]

Dumb witted script kiddie attack, that tosser defaces many sites for nothing more than a numbers ego trip.

Hope all is secure now and well done on getting the forum back on it's feet.

[carbore]

Well done for sorting it out. No doubt Rootx- is an clinically obease sweaty socially inept long term virgin with less mates than Garry Glitter who spends most of his time with one hand on the mouse and the other on his root -x

[Drift]

What happened :oops:

[Skibum346]

What happened :oops:

Hacker replaced site with "Hacked by RootX" page.... arse that he is.... hope his next bowel movement is a hedghog!   :twisted:

[Little-Green-Machine]

Glad to see mud-club back on line so quickly, sad git, if you google the name r00t-x its a romanian group led by some bloke with a "mental issue".
 good its back online :D

[Saffy]

What happened :oops:

Hacker

Not even that, I put money the fact they exploited a previously published vulnerability in one of the facilities that mudclub uses on its server(s) be it a webapp or one of the host daemons, and they exploited it using tools created and published by someone else (a *real* security researcher). All these muppets do is scan the internet looking for hosts that have these known and unpatched  weaknesses (you often only need google to do that!)  and then do their deed of exploiting the bug. Very little skill base required - pretty much point and click. They do not research for new weaknesses in software themselves nor do they design and program the tools to do it - purely scriptkiddies. The software vendors need to keep on top of releasing security patches and the end user admins need to keep on top of applying them.

[BigA]

Well done for sorting it out. No doubt Rootx- is an clinically obease sweaty socially inept long term virgin with less mates than Garry Glitter who spends most of his time with one hand on the mouse and the other on his root -x

 :lol: love the description

[90Mike]

sorry for being thick :oops: but i dont understand what this person has to gain by hacking into mud club other than causing disruption surely there are other sites out there that his time could be better played with :?

[Ridgeback]

sorry for being thick :oops: but i dont understand what this person has to gain by hacking into mud club other than causing disruption surely there are other sites out there that his time could be better played with :?

Its because they only have very limited brain cells and no mates. This type of stuff is normally done by virgins that are still sat behind a PC expecting a woman to jump out of windows vista and tell them how hot they find computer geeks !

[Saffy]

sorry for being thick :oops: but i dont understand what this person has to gain by hacking into mud club other than causing disruption surely there are other sites out there that his time could be better played with :?

They probably didn't look at the site or ever visited it, it was just another vulnerable easy target that was on a long list, the attack could even have even automated. Not saying this is what happened to mudclub - could be something totally different... just I am just guessing based on experience. They just gain another victim, as far as I knwo they don't even send out a message like others do such as 'down with the USA' or whatever, no these guys seem to just tag the site like a graffiti tit goes around town spraying his tag.

[Suvvey]

Rootx isn't the cyber wing of the RA is he? Stinks of a communist attack if you ask me :-k

[Drift]

sat behind a PC expecting a woman to jump out of windows vista and tell them how hot they find computer geeks !

So, I take it this will never happen then  :oops:

[Disco Matt]

sat behind a PC expecting a woman to jump out of windows vista and tell them how hot they find computer geeks !

So, I take it this will never happen then  :oops:

Not with Vista. However, if you run Linux it will probably happen. Only snag is that she's only interested in you while her computer is broken, she'll be straight after the rugby players again once you fix it!  :lol:

[dxmedia]

[rant]

It's not hacking it's cracking !!

Hacking is getting things and making cool stuff with em. Cracking is breaking into computers and damaging them. Media picked up on the wrong term years ago !

Pretty much every one on this site is a hacker in one way or another. n00bx scrip kiddie was a cracker

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glad to see it's all back up though.

[Disco Matt]

[rant]

It's not hacking it's cracking !!

Hacking is getting things and making cool stuff with em. Cracking is breaking into computers and damaging them. Media picked up on the wrong term years ago !

Pretty much every one on this site is a hacker in one way or another. n00bx scrip kiddie was a cracker

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glad to see it's all back up though.

Spot on

Now if only the media and public at large could understand this. Being a hacker is actually a good thing, it means you can repair, upgrade, and build your own kit without being another passive consumer drone.

Actually, for businesses reliant on consumer culture that wouldn't be such a good thing, would it...

[Saffy]

It's more the case that those in the IT security research field (on a professional basis) even bother to differentiate between such terms and have long accept the umbrella term "hacker" for what it means today and now to the masses regardless of it's roots (r00ts  :lol:) and such things are not something to get uppity about.

[dxmedia]

working in the IT security research field (on a professional basis) we distinct between cracking and hacking. Maybe that's cus we're geeks  :lol:

[carbore]

Trying to differentiate between Hackers and Crackers is like trying to say "Im Gay" and then explain that you are just in a good mood. Language changes, for better or worse.

Hacker= Badly trained lumberjack
Cracker - Badly trained window fitter

At least we all know what a script kiddie is (although I have heard Script Kitty?, is that when you defend yourself by saying the cat stood on the keyboard?)