DA Website Hacked

[rpm]

DA Website Hacked

The Democratic Alliance (DA) website has been offline for the past week and is likely to stay so for the next, thanks to an unknown hacker's attack on the site.

 

[reech]

There have been a number of large scale SQL injection attacks over the past 2 weeks - I doubt they were 'hacked' as such - simply 'infected'.

 

[guest2013-1]

yea several of my clients have had this been a pain in my ass, especially because I didn't write the code...

 

[Nickste]

DA spokesperson Anthony Hazell said on Friday a temporary "mini-website" will be up and running within a week

A week to get their site back online?! Are they using smoke signals to communicate with it?!

 

[The_Unbeliever]

SQL injections will become more commonplace...

 

[.Froot.]

SQL injections are so easy to overcome, yet it's so often still used.... now at least I know which web designers not to use....

 

[HavocXphere]

A week to get their site back online?! Are they using smoke signals to communicate with it?!

+1. Getting hacked is not a disaster....it happens. But 1 week off-line...wtf.

 

[nelwa]

Not protecting a site agains SQL injection is just plain old lazy programming. It's easy to do, and should be done on all sites. People should be more vigilant when choosing a website developer...

 

[gregmcc]

and a new hacker-proof site launched at the end of October this year.

eish! Will these people never learn!

Hacker proof...mmmwaaaaaa haaaaaaaa haaaaa

 

[lws]

Hacker proof...mmmwaaaaaa haaaaaaaa haaaaa

I thought it sounded like a site begging to be taken down again when I first read that line.

 

[Praemon]

Not protecting a site agains SQL injection is just plain old lazy programming. It's easy to do, and should be done on all sites. People should be more vigilant when choosing a website developer...

Exactly, it's basic security to cover sql injection...

 

[Peder]

why don't people make backups of their site? or am i just very naive when it comes to designing websites?

 

[CharlesM]

why don't people make backups of their site? or am i just very naive when it comes to designing websites?

If I'm not mistaken they were using an open source CMS, and ignored the security releases... One of my sites was hacked a week ago, my hosting company got it restored within hours.

 

[Tns]

maybe someone got hired to do the job.....

 

[HosstheBoss]

maybe someone got hired to do the job.....

ag please, the DA has less smack than Steve Hofmeyer!

 

[Alchemist]

Someone rigged the "Vote DA" button

 

[superfly]

It's an ASP site... hello, that's very easy to hack... or even find and remove the database, since most ASP sites use an MS Access database (which is simply a file on the server). And in my experience, ASP sites have never been well written, and most are easy to hack.

 

[Olly]

It would have been faster to bring it up *couple hours* but i heard from a source that they were going to try the other parties technique of putting the server in the shower to wash off the virus...

alas, it didnt help the mother board.. or any other electronic part for that matter...

 

[Nickste]

It would have been faster to bring it up *couple hours* but i heard from a source that they were going to try the other parties technique of putting the server in the shower to wash off the virus...

alas, it didnt help the mother board.. or any other electronic part for that matter...

Hehehehe - spose that's what happens when one mixes SA politics with IT eh?!

 

[w1z4rd]

Yup da website got hacked.