Pixtudio website hacked
Sunday, December 28, 2003 by Alexandrie | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Pixtudio website has been hacked today, we almost recovered everthing but the backup is almost a month old, if you have purchase a suite during December and your key is not working anymore, please contact [email protected] so we can restore back your key.
Sorry for inconvenience
Sorry for inconvenience
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kongit
Reply #42 Tuesday, December 30, 2003 3:07 AM
Reply #42 Tuesday, December 30, 2003 3:07 AM
Ah yes but by ignoring and not reinforcing we leave the back door open for something worse to sneak in. nevermind I am deviating from the topic. but then isn't the topic about hackers?
Orion
Reply #43 Tuesday, December 30, 2003 8:33 AM
Reply #43 Tuesday, December 30, 2003 8:33 AM
Unfortunately, there will always be hackers. Period. In a faint and warped sense of selfishness, I'm glad...because security and antivirus admin is a good chunk of my time at work and therefore job security. 
Hackers, for lack of a better term, are so prevalent because all it takes is a set of software tools freely downloadable, and thousands of server "admins" that have no clue how to harden their systems. Heck, I guess I'm a hacker in the sense that I use all of the same tools and techniques as the bad guys to harden my networks and systems.
For clarity and so nobody gets their feathers all ruffled, this post is not directed at any one person or entity. There are a few cases where things are beyond the control of oneself. For instance, my web site is on my ISP's web servers. I have no control over security whatsoever. I've mailed them on vulnerabilities before and it's always fallen on deaf ears.
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Hackers, for lack of a better term, are so prevalent because all it takes is a set of software tools freely downloadable, and thousands of server "admins" that have no clue how to harden their systems. Heck, I guess I'm a hacker in the sense that I use all of the same tools and techniques as the bad guys to harden my networks and systems.
For clarity and so nobody gets their feathers all ruffled, this post is not directed at any one person or entity. There are a few cases where things are beyond the control of oneself. For instance, my web site is on my ISP's web servers. I have no control over security whatsoever. I've mailed them on vulnerabilities before and it's always fallen on deaf ears.
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craeonics
Reply #45 Tuesday, December 30, 2003 9:41 AM
Reply #45 Tuesday, December 30, 2003 9:41 AM
I think they did the right thing by telling everyone that the site was hacked. Why lie about it? To prevent whoever hacked it from feeling victorious? That's nonsense.
If I were to hack PixTudio and tell all my friends about it and PixTudio would then say that they were having 'technical difficulties', it would confirm my hack was succesfull and it would make it sound like they have trouble dealing with it and had to resort to misleading statements.
On the other hand, stating that they were hacked sends out the message: "We were hacked. We'll make sure it won't happen again".
Word of advice, to 'lex and 'tog: keep your administration seperated from the Net.
If I were to hack PixTudio and tell all my friends about it and PixTudio would then say that they were having 'technical difficulties', it would confirm my hack was succesfull and it would make it sound like they have trouble dealing with it and had to resort to misleading statements.
On the other hand, stating that they were hacked sends out the message: "We were hacked. We'll make sure it won't happen again".
Word of advice, to 'lex and 'tog: keep your administration seperated from the Net.
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Reply #41 Tuesday, December 30, 2003 2:29 AM
Just an opinion that is widely accepted and appears to thwart a lot of the reinforcement this type of filth get off on. I won't debate it further for fear of deviating from Topic.