bq. Dear people in Brazil,
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I'm quite sorry for the problems you are having with the world. If I could understand your language, I'm sure I would agree with your cause. So please don't deface our websites any more. Thanks.
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Love,
Jim
Yeah… so… we got a bit hacked. It seems as though they used an exploit in an older version of Apache to dig themselves a nice little hole. As best as I can tell, they never rooted the box, but, they did manage to replace every index.* file with their Anti-War message. I believe I've got the hole they used patched up so, all that's left is going through the lengthy process of trying to fix what they destroyed.
The most recent backup I have of all of the sites is from March 29th of 2004. I'm currently running through all the hosted files and replacing those that have been defaced with the backup from March. In MOST cases, this will be good enough since MOST of the stuff we host is actually database driven sites and the index.* files are never actually updated. However, some of our users still edit HTML by hand. All of those files will be sorely outdated. Additionally, if a user has installed a new application or upgraded an existing application since the March backup, the restore will most likely leave the application in an unhappy state.
As soon as I finish the restore, I'll let you all know. Then you can pick through your site and determine if there's anything not working.
I'm very sorry for the trouble, but, believe me, whatever anguish you're experiencing now, multiply that by at least 50 and you might be close to what Justin and I are going through.
