{"id":10814,"date":"2010-01-27T14:21:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T09:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=10814"},"modified":"2020-05-24T10:24:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T04:54:35","slug":"techcrunch-hacked-hackers-find-security-exploit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2010\/01\/techcrunch-hacked-hackers-find-security-exploit\/","title":{"rendered":"TechCrunch Hacked Again! Hackers Find Security Exploit"},"content":{"rendered":"

TechCrunch hacked! Its unbelivable but true. As I visited the top tech blog, I found the entire TechCrunch.com<\/a> site is offline and this notice is posted<\/p>\n

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A lot of blogs were buzzing and found different screenshots. Inqusitr<\/a> says as of 10:20pm PDT Monday (Jan 25) TechCrunch was offline with a message that simply stated \u201chi\u201d on its main page.<\/p>\n

\"techcrunch<\/p>\n

Technologizer<\/a> says they found this bad worded message posted<\/p>\n

\"techcrunch<\/p>\n

Techie-Buzz found a rapidshare download link onsite<\/p>\n

\"techcrunch<\/p>\n

Its seems the secuity exploit which enabled hackers to take Techcrunch offline and post spam messages and links is not yet identified as TC continues to be offline.<\/p>\n

Techcruch is powered by WordPress<\/a> (like us) and they must surely be runing the latest WordPress version. Are you still running an older WordPress version, upgrade now as everyone knows your wordpress version<\/a>. Here are some 3 WordPress security tips<\/a> I learnt from Matt Cutts and some top WordPress security plugins<\/a> you need to check out.<\/p>\n

This clearly exposed the vulnerability of top blogs to online threats and yet unfound security exploits. Its is very essential to keep backups<\/a> of your blog. TechCrunch has the best of tech support, security experts and network engineers, if they can get hacked, any blog can get hacked…<\/p>\n

Update: <\/strong>It seems Techcrunch got hacked again and the hacker was annoyed with the interstitial ad. So was WordPress the cause? I read this comment by Mark Jacquith and am now more wary of using unsecure WordPress plugins.<\/p>\n

They probably didn’t get “onto the server” in terms of getting shell access. More likely is an insecure plugin that allows PHP injection<\/strong>. Their wp-admin is HTTP Auth protected, so it’s unlikely that someone did this with a WordPress account. They’d have to know the HTTP Auth user\/pass as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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