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Community => General discussion => : Stackprotector April 16, 2013, 09:56:20 AM

: Short story: Security on evilzone
: Stackprotector April 16, 2013, 09:56:20 AM
One day Factionwars implemented a Google custom search function into the forum software as a experiment.


A few days later, at a stunning time of 6 in the morning, 2 administrators called ande and bluechill found out about the feature and thought we were compromised. They thought someone implemented a malicious google custom search in our site 8) .


So the 2 admins started crawling trough every log the linux system possess and go trough every file to see where a possible hacker got trough (Which is in the first place very unlikely). They went on for hours. And when the admin Factionwars comes online after a good night of sleep the admin ande asked him if he implemented the google custom search. Yep, he did. Ande is happy, so is the security.


And they lived happily ever after.
: Re: Short story: Security on evilzone
: WirelessDesert April 16, 2013, 10:33:35 AM
Nice. Good job Factionwars, good job.
: Re: Short story: Security on evilzone
: proxx April 16, 2013, 01:33:37 PM
It would have been the first hacker to implement a "google search" maliciously.
Fuck sweet.
: Re: Short story: Security on evilzone
: bluechill April 16, 2013, 03:24:00 PM
No so the problem is EvilZone gets enough views a month that it might be worth it to do because of ad revenue you would get hence why we were concerned because it looked like the person who did this, Factionwars, had touched *other* files as well and his login times weren't quite consistent with the modification because of an error in how the server was keeping file times vs ssh login times...

Basically we didn't have the protections we needed to truly figure out whether it was an admin or not who did this but now we do after this scare :P

Also it was only 12am my time when I messaged you so nbd on my part.
: Re: Short story: Security on evilzone
: ande April 16, 2013, 08:13:43 PM
Funny story bro
: Re: Short story: Security on evilzone
: kenjoe41 April 16, 2013, 10:04:00 PM
Nice. Good job Factionwars, good job.
NO, thanks to the admins who are always alert. We have faith in you guys.
: Re: Short story: Security on evilzone
: ande April 16, 2013, 11:18:05 PM
I always enjoy an all-nighter digging through insane amounts of logs :)  ...