Digg Founder Kevin Rose Hacked!
Update: The Digg story has been buried by Digg staff…go figure.
For quite a long time, Digg founder Kevin Rose has had nothing more than an ambiguous “soon.” on his personal website. Curious to see whether there was anything else hiding in his site, I did a Google search for all pages on that domain. It turns out that Kevin was planning to keep a Wordpress blog on the site, with a Wordpress install already active. After installing Wordpress, Kevin Rose seems to have neglected the site, and thus did not install the Wordpress security updates. Which resulted in this friendly defacement on March 6th, 2007:
Now the site simply returns a 500 error, which leads me to believe they solved the problem by removing PHP or mangling .htaccess.
No big deal, but a reminder that even projects we may have long forgotten about still need to be secured and maintained.
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ya rightely said that
“that even projects we may have long forgotten about still need to be secured and maintained.”
and for a company like Digg, which is fast becoming one the popular sites over …..Internet. This is not what ppl expect of such a site.
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