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DaveJ

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2. How do they get in?

Reply to Tab (Original post)

Thu Apr 4, 2013, 05:05 PM

Apr 2013

Do they just get ahold of the admin credentials somehow or is there some other backdoor? I'm guessing that people using the same username/passwords on independent sites that don't protected the users' passwords, then the hackers somehow get ahold of them and try the same username and password for the user elsewhere. But I have no idea really.

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Frickin' script kiddie hackers whatever [View all] Tab Apr 2013 OP

False attribution attacks are apparently common these days. napoleon_in_rags Apr 2013 #1

How do they get in? DaveJ Apr 2013 #2

I think is what happens Tab Apr 2013 #3

I put up a Wordpress site for my company DaveJ Apr 2013 #4

Well, we didn't have admin/pass Tab Apr 2013 #5

Different methods. Dash87 Apr 2013 #7

yep script kiddies with a copy of 'backtrack5 for dumbasses'. Phillip McCleod Apr 2013 #6

I don't understand them either - what a colossal waste of time to just hack and destroy. gtar100 Apr 2013 #8

They tried again the next night Tab Apr 2013 #9

hacked selimx Jun 2015 #10

WordPress, the new Adobe Draug Jul 2015 #11