Posted on Wednesday, September 26, 2007 @ 22:43:23 CDT in Security
by Raven
Duck writes: I would like to inform the community that I discovered a vulnerability in the Hall of Shame Module (HoS) I wrote.
It came to my attention that my server was running a script that was using up processor resources and lagging my shared host environment. The process was running under my account so I did some searching and found out there were files uploaded to the HoS punkss and punkdemo folders where files uploaded by admins are stored.
It seems they were using my server as a mail and chat relay. I still looking into the matter to figure out how they got in and how to make sure it doesn't happen again but in the meantime I wanted to inform the community so people can secure themselves as quickly as possible.
First step to do is check for any sub-folders under punkss and punkdemos and Read More...