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1. grawil
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Just curious if anyone has been able to confirm the existence of a .htaccess vulnerability exploited to hack glennwolsey and macapper?

2. moshu
   Moderator
   Posted 9 months ago #

   What about this?
   http://digg.com/apple/Mac_hacking_only_a_PR_stunt

3. grawil
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Seems that story has been buried on digg... The macapper post I linked suggests that it is a WP problem and that they would report it. Having just spent two hours looking for holes in my WP installs, I'd be rather annoyed if this was nothing more than a lame PR stunt by a bunch of 14 year olds.

4. moshu
   Moderator
   Posted 9 months ago #

   I don't know... just found it interesting.
   On the other hand - having any file (including .htaccess) world writable is not a good thing, I agree.

5. grawil
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   It appears that glennwolsey, macapper, applematters were all part of an elaborate fraud.

   http://www.applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/a-bad-pr-stunt/
   http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/65867/

   Perhaps I'll find this funny at some point... but for the moment I'm rather annoyed that I wasted time looking for holes that weren't there.

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