TechCrunch hacked by porn jerk

For the first time that I can recall, TechCrunch, one of the world's top 5 most popular blogs, has been hacked.

There has been some fluctuation in what comes up when you navigate to TechCrunch domain. As someone on a hacker forum stated: "Looks like it's switching around depending on what backend their load balancer throws you to. It's jumping around for me, which suggests they don't have any session affinity."

Another hacker forum member said, and I totally agree: "Maybe people will finally stop using the duct-taped spaghetti called Wordpress."

WARNING: Do not visit TechCrunch until the site has been cleansed and secured. Be aware that visiting it right now is equivalent to visiting a suspicious, untrusted site. It could serve malicious content that takes advantage of unknown vunerabilities even on fully patched systems.

Security is a huge problem for Obama, the CIA, Fort Hood, airports, Twitter, and now TechCrunch, all of them compromised recently. You need to understand how to harden your enterprise against such attacks, which are increasing.

Chinese and Iranian cyber-thugs are getting better every day. What are you doing to improve your network and home computer security savvy?

Here's what the hacker put on the TechCrunch domain, which linked to a website with links to adult material, until TechCrunch administrators removed it and replaced it with the message at the top of this post:






This is pretty spooky. I'm anxious to find out the criminal's identity and motive.

While we're on the topic of internet vandalism, what would you do if the root servers of the internet were hacked and destroyed? If the internet, the whole thing, vanished forever? Do you have print-outs of your best blog posts? Have you burned to CD all your most important data and favorite songs?

How would you waste your time if you could never again visit Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Digg, Mashable, Daily Kos, InstaPundit, Huffington Post, Last.fm, MySpace Music, Pandora, Amazon, eBay, Ubu Web, Pluperfecter, or ... TechCrunch?

Think about it.


NOTE: Images from Graham Cluley's post on TechCrunch hacked.



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