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6 million web pages hacked in the last 3 months!!!

abefromanabefroman Banned Posts: 278
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Did anyone see this article?

Almost 6 million web pages were hacked in the last 3 months.

New data shows website hacks continue to grow unabated - SC Magazine US
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    royalroyal Member Posts: 3,352 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Exact reason I do a full backup and a database backup of my blog after any change.
    “For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.” - Harry F. Banks
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    dynamikdynamik Banned Posts: 12,312 ■■■■■■■■■□
    I just host my site on a Mac. They don't get viruses, are impossible to hack, and have the best performance in the world.
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    tierstentiersten Member Posts: 4,505
    All that article says is that there are a lot of webservers or applications out there with bad security or bugs. Nothing new there. People either don't know or don't care that they've got vulnerable software and just leave it alone.
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    tribe_menxtribe_menx Member Posts: 83 ■■□□□□□□□□
    Last month major websites in Namibia where hacked and it seems target were joomla powered website with
    B.Science Information Systems
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    laidbackfreaklaidbackfreak Member Posts: 991
    dynamik wrote: »
    I just host my site on a Mac. They don't get viruses, are impossible to hack, and have the best performance in the world.

    lol and on that nice fluffy cloud over there you can see angels frolicing ;-P
    if I say something that can be taken one of two ways and one of them offends, I usually mean the other one :-)
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    TurgonTurgon Banned Posts: 6,308 ■■■■■■■■■□
    dynamik wrote: »
    I just host my site on a Mac. They don't get viruses, are impossible to hack, and have the best performance in the world.

    Steady on security buff..according to Cardiff University Mac's do get viruses.

    Apple Mac Anti-virus Software and Security

    "The SH/Renepo worm (also known as Opener) can turn off the Mac OS X firewall and other security software; will download and install hacker tools for password-sniffing and cracking…"

    Renepo worm targets Mac OS X users, Sophos reports 25 October 2004
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    PashPash Member Posts: 1,600 ■■■■■□□□□□
    Turgon wrote: »
    Steady on security buff..according to Cardiff University Mac's do get viruses.

    Apple Mac Anti-virus Software and Security

    "The SH/Renepo worm (also known as Opener) can turn off the Mac OS X firewall and other security software; will download and install hacker tools for password-sniffing and cracking…"

    Renepo worm targets Mac OS X users, Sophos reports 25 October 2004

    I could be wrong but I think he's trying to pull our pishers (sounds great when my scottish chum says that).

    I am not really sure how secure my hosting is, for that matter I am not even sure what box it sits on. Maybe I should find out!
    DevOps Engineer and Security Champion. https://blog.pash.by - I am trying to find my writing style, so please bear with me.
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    veritas_libertasveritas_libertas Member Posts: 5,746 ■■■■■■■■■■
    dynamik wrote: »
    I just host my site on a Mac. They don't get viruses, are impossible to hack, and have the best performance in the world.

    Please tell me that was joke.

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    veritas_libertasveritas_libertas Member Posts: 5,746 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Pash wrote: »
    I could be wrong but I think he's trying to pull our pishers (sounds great when my scottish chum says that).

    icon_lol.gif I have no idea what that means but it made me laugh....
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    dynamikdynamik Banned Posts: 12,312 ■■■■■■■■■□
    veritas_libertas wrote: »
    Please tell me that was joke.

    No, I'm completely serious. It's a G3, so virus code can't even possibly run on it. It's even impervious to physical theft because it's one of those old iMacs. I just put an aquarium screen saver on it, and intruders just think it's a crappy fish tank.
    veritas_libertas wrote: »
    icon_lol.gif I have no idea what that means but it made me laugh....

    Tell me about it; people from across the pond crack me up ;)
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    shednikshednik Member Posts: 2,005
    dynamik wrote: »
    No, I'm completely serious. It's a G3, so virus code can't even possibly run on it. It's even impervious to physical theft because it's one of those old iMacs. I just put an aquarium screen saver on it, and intruders just think it's a crappy fish tank.



    Tell me about it; people from across the pond crack me up ;)

    You should be on those Mac commercials man!!icon_lol.gif
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    veritas_libertasveritas_libertas Member Posts: 5,746 ■■■■■■■■■■
    dynamik wrote: »
    No, I'm completely serious. It's a G3, so virus code can't even possibly run on it. It's even impervious to physical theft because it's one of those old iMacs. I just put an aquarium screen saver on it, and intruders just think it's a crappy fish tank.

    Apple Cube Aquarium

    Somewhere there is a Make Magazine article on how to literally do that with a G3...
    dynamik wrote: »
    Tell me about it; people from across the pond crack me up ;)

    I think they make those words up and think us Americans will just believe them... icon_lol.gif
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    abefromanabefroman Banned Posts: 278
    dynamik wrote: »
    I just host my site on a Mac. They don't get viruses, are impossible to hack, and have the best performance in the world.

    ROFL, good one!
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