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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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november 21, 2:03 ayem
david alerted me to some disturbing information this evening. it appears negative273 was nearly hacked.
greymatter, the cgi backend that we use to manage our site, provides us with some rather useful features. among them, we have the option to "view control panel log." this allows us to see who has logged on and what theyve done. but it also allows us to see who has tried to log on. so when browsing the control panel log this evening dave found the following
[11/20/01 05:24 PM] [65.7.109.79] Invalid login attempt: No such author as michealdixon (*edit*) registered
[11/20/01 05:24 PM] [65.7.109.79] Invalid login attempt: No such author as michaledixon (*edit*) registered
he thought he should bring it to my attention, and I was rather suprised to see it. especially since they knew my password. (instances of my password in the quoted text have been replaced with *edit* to prevent further attack.) faced with such a mystery, its important to go over the facts. we know that:
a) our attacker knew that I often went by "michaeldixon," all as one word.
b) our attacker does not know how to spell "michael."
c) our attacker lives at my house. (IP address 65.7.109.79)
having turned these facts over in my head the last few minutes I only have two things to say:
"michael" is spelled m-i-c-h-A-E-L.
and, dont try to hack your brothers website anymore. he will find out. (and so will your mom.)
Posted by on 21 November 2001 at 2:06 AM
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