Hackers deface SA sites

[rpm]

http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/internet/2005/0504131214.asp?A=INT&S=Internet&T=News&O=SL

 

[MaD]

Bored laaities exploiting knownvulnerabilities.. takes as much skill as it does for Telkom to turn a profit.

 

[stoke]

No credit goes to ITWeb at all. To ITWeb ... Howz about a link to the solution you unhelpfull buggers.

 

[mufasa]

awstats

i have read that the fault is with the awstats.pl perl script. here is the link to the exploit.
http://www.frsirt.com/exploits/20050124.awexpl.c.php

 

[Raithlin]

Easy. Upgrade phpBB to the latest version. 2.0.10 was exploitable. 2.0.13 isn't.

 

[WickedWeasel]

Well they tried my voip forum, and were unsuccesful.

 

[bb_matt]

It is critical that companies not only have a firewall but that it is regularly checked for vulnerabilities.

Well, it's critical to have a firewall fullstop, but that doesn't mean anything in terms of the story - a vunerability in server side services that require a port to be open has nothing to do with a firewall per se. If an internal network can be accessed via an exploit on a server with ports open to the net, then the admin of that network is just looking for ****.

 

[kilps]

The only use for hackings to hack Telkoms website - besides that it is a full waste of time, monay and broadband