Thursday, July 30, 2009

We are Under Heavy Attack!

Yes! We are under attack! Here are several kinds of attacks that we’ve received within these past 3 days:

Bruteforce attack - someone bruteforced the password of me@th0r.info and this very guy tried to retrieve password for http://th0r.info Admin Control Panel.
Remote File Inclusion - believe it or not, one unidentified hacker had successfully installed one terrible PHP Shell which still worked cross-domain within one of our domain, although the hacker gain nothing since our security team block the access from that shell - however, this kind of attack is indeed time consuming since we need to read accesslogs in order to determine which way is this guy went to do this (to prevent this matter to rise in the future).
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) - we’ve been DDoSed within these past 3 days, therefore, the performance of our server is not at peak at all. This attack also affected our webmail and studentboard, which also makes several incoming and outgoing email to not be able to sent/received properly.
HostGator’s Network Problem - also HostGator got their own problem within their data center, this without a doubt affecting the performance of our very server, remembering that we host our domains under this very company.
We indeed apologize for the inconvenience, however, we put our best effort to make all these attacks stopped in order to maintain our performance at peak. Therefore, we need your understanding.

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