Posts Tagged ‘hackers’

The Generation Gap that swallows you whole!

January 21st, 2010 by Sarah King

An SOS went out today from a young BMX racer via Facebook that his website had been hacked. I took a look at http://marcwillers.com/ and the first thing that struck me was that it wasn’t a typical hacking… closer inspection of the Facebook messages showed that there was some sort of conflict between Marc and “RMC” – the original site developer.

A few hours later and Marc’s site is back to normal, but with a new post of midget porn dedicated to RMC.

Now I’ve met both these guys and RMC runs (owns?) a large bike store across town. I’m guessing amongst his mates he has a reputation as a prankster (although there will be a hipper name these days).

Marc made it to the Olympics in his chosen sport and it’s a tough sport where you need as much of a mental edge as with any other. I race BMX too and there’s something very special about it and the people

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Protecting your forum logins from hackers

August 11th, 2007 by Sarah King

This is a hot topic at DigitalPoint right now as there is a bot working it’s way down the memberslist and doing bruteforce or dictionary attacks on the logins. Because the forum uses vBulletin it only gets 5 shots before there’s a lockout and it has to move onto the next member and then remember to return later. But it’s keen and has been running for a couple of days now. Reports indicate that it’s tried some other forums too.

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