KLOV Hacked

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:06 pm

If you go to the KLOV web site you can see it was hacked. Apparently, by a group that at least on the surface, claims to be a Muslim group. They rant on the page about the American and Israeli "killers".. I wonder how they picked KLOV of all sites to deface?

Post by **system11** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:20 pm

Probably just trawling through sites until they hit one they could get into.

The n00b · Post by **The n00b** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 5:00 pm

Damn fundys, how many casualties must they claim?

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 5:23 pm

Eh, looks like I missed it. What's up with the recent game site hacks?

dboeren · Post by **dboeren** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 5:28 pm

I saw that too. The front page is hacked, but you can still get to all the game data luckily.

Here's a link to Ikaruga you can use as a starting point if you need to get something off of there today:
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?let ... e_id=10841

Andi · Post by **Andi** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 6:20 pm

Yeah. I saw it too. It was fixed very the end of that morning. That's a real bold statement. Arcade enthusiasts across the planet will know you mean business.

Fost · Post by **Fost** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 9:22 pm

womengamers.com and gametunnel.com forums were also hacked in the past week.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 9:22 pm

Anybody who has to resort to such low tactics to get their message across isn't worth one &^%$# of attention.

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 7:27 pm

Whell let's hack some of the hackers' sites than and post something like:

`Death to all the people dispising videogames and shmups!`

The n00b · Post by **The n00b** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 8:40 pm

Can't violent religious fundamentalists and hardcore videogame players get along? Will it really be worth suicide bombing an arcade that is only filled with DDR players?

Post by **system11** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:00 pm

The n00b wrote:Can't violent religious fundamentalists and hardcore videogame players get along? Will it really be worth suicide bombing an arcade that is only filled with DDR players?

That sounds like an excellent reason to explode an arcade.

Zhon · Post by **Zhon** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 6:33 am

Why does everyone take things at face value so often? The religious fundamentalist thing was probably just a smokescreen.

I'm not going to bother visiting the sites to find out more, but it could be that messageboard vulnerability that was revealed lately which was used.

Fost · Post by **Fost** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 10:56 am

Actually - good point! this board's software is out of date - who needs to know this?

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 11:28 am

Fost wrote:this board's software is out of date - who needs to know this?

Thanks, I've mentioned it to the site admins.

Fost · Post by **Fost** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 11:50 am

A month or two ago, phpbb team set up a mailing list for update announcements:

http://www.phpbb.com/support/

Which is worth subscribing to - when they moved to version 2.0.11, I made the update to our board, and the next day we had 2000+ hits trying to use that exploit. It seems some people are maintaining lists of phpbb boards so when an exploit comes out, they can use them. It's even possible to search for the version number using google (version number has been removed in the latest release)

In the latest version, the admin page also tells you if the board software is up to date.

Post by **system11** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 4:18 pm

Fost wrote:A month or two ago, phpbb team set up a mailing list for update announcements:

http://www.phpbb.com/support/

Which is worth subscribing to - when they moved to version 2.0.11, I made the update to our board, and the next day we had 2000+ hits trying to use that exploit. It seems some people are maintaining lists of phpbb boards so when an exploit comes out, they can use them. It's even possible to search for the version number using google (version number has been removed in the latest release)

In the latest version, the admin page also tells you if the board software is up to date.

Thanks for the heads up, I've run the upgrade, restored the data it splatted, and subscribed to that list.