Billoreilly.com got hacked - allegedly in retaliation for comments Billo made after the hack of Sarah Palin's Yahoo account. The proof of the hack has been posted on wikileaks.com:
The file provides proof that the Fox News demagogue, Bill O'Reilly, has been hacked.
Wikileaks has been informed the hack was a response to the pundit's recent scurrilous attacks over the Sarah Palin's email story--including those on Wikileaks and other members of the press.
The words that made teh 1337 h4XX0rz angry are, according to The Register...
"I'm not going to mention the website that posted this, but it's one of those despicable, slimy, scummy websites," O'Reilly said. "Everybody knows where this stuff is, OK, and they know the people who run the website, so why can't they go there tonight to the guy's house who runs it, put him in cuffs and take him down and book him?"
This quote alone manifests extreme cluelessness - the leaks appeared on several sites, not one; wikileaks.com, which, I think, was one of these sites, is hosted in several countries to provide a redundant and bulletproof information clearinghouse for whistleblowers. You cannot take it down, and there are many people who run it.
Also, from the details in the article, it is clear that the billoreilly.com hack was made possible by extremely poor security. The hackers did a brute-force run through a number of URL permutations and got to the administrative front end of the site, getting a list of its subscribers.
Note that, according to netcraft.com, billoreilly.com was hosted on a Windows Server 2003. That's just sad. What's even sadder is that, based on the same source, the webserver they use is Apache/Coyote 1.1 - which could mean it's a three-year-old version.
I think that the recent two security incidents (O'Reilly and Palin) demonstrate that Internet security has a well-known liberal bias.
DISCLAIMER. This diary does not endorse the hacking of any website, the pouring of any hot grits down Bill O'Rly's pants, or any gloating directed at Bill O'Rly's fans. No loofahs were harmed in the preparation of this diary.
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