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Popular porn site hacked by prudes

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By Iain Thomson
Feb 7, 2008 9:39 AM | 31 Comments
Tags: redtube | porn | turkey | hacks | redtube | hacker
Hackers yesterday shut down one of the most popular porn sites on the internet..
Redtube.com is in the top 100 most visited websites, and was temporarily shut down by a 'Turkish cyber-terrorist' group calling itself 'Hacked Netdevilz'.

"No porn!" the site read. "We're not the first but we're the best."

The site, which attracted four million visitors last month, is now back up and running on a different server, but experts are poring over the site's logs to find the vulnerability that allowed the security features to be bypassed.

Redtube posts submitted videos, in the same way as YouTube, and attempts are now underway to discover whether the security hole is common to other web 2.0 sites.

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Comments: 31
"but experts are poring over the site's logs to find the vulnerability that allowed the security features to be bypassed." COME On!!!!! You dont think they removed the logs.... ??
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by JJul 18, 2008 9:53 PM
Any good log system is going to be modular (separate from the web site itself), and more than that, can only be added to, not deleted or modified. I doubt the guys at Redtube are that ignorant of web standards. Think of it as CD-R, if you will. Their logs are intact, guaranteed.
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by RussOct 9, 2008 7:21 PM
With their type of business, what makes you think that they keep logs?
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by B.ObamaFeb 17, 2009 1:57 AM
With their type of business? Sorry, but money forces professionalism. Even if half the world envisions sleaze and stink when porn is mentioned, I can guarantee you will find professional businesspeople making sure the money flows.
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by Liquid WolfFeb 27, 2009 3:53 AM
By professionals, you mean the same professionals those sites and the software that runs them? Riiiiiiight - you mean semi-professional, don't you?
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by Mike C.Apr 25, 2009 9:10 AM
Now please explain why the people hacking this site were "prudes"? This could be anybody pretending to be anti-porn to fool the dills... EG: A competitor...? I am not certain that a competitor would be a prude, more likely another sex and porn dealer...
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by FreddyAug 3, 2009 8:16 PM
I'm an IT professional and we're having a lot problems with our bin.exe, it was taken away from us. I heard that redtube was having the same problem with their Bin.exe file yesterday
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by MikelSoftAug 5, 2009 2:47 PM
Hi MikelSoft, I'm also a try hard wannabe IT Professional, we're having the same issue at our workplace. I think it might be the work of the Gr33n T34m
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by WarL0rdAug 5, 2009 2:52 PM
Hi Warl0rd, im apart of the gr33nt34m. Bin.exe is causing alot security issues and we had no choice but to retract the bin.exe PDTN...below - STACK DUMP - - MODULE LIST - 00400000-00443000: C:\sea77\siebsrvr\bin\siebmtshmw.exe, 7.7.2.9 I Also overheard from someone in my team that there was another reoccurance of the stack dump today causing a huge mess
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by SCOM ManAug 5, 2009 3:09 PM
Do you guys keep any log files in the Gr33nt34m?
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by B.ObamaAug 5, 2009 3:16 PM
Hi SCOM Man, A colleague of mine has also noticed the huge -- Stack Dump -- It alledgedly occured after one of our Contractors had been Flushing the cache.
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by The SCAT manAug 5, 2009 3:21 PM
Very informative article Iain....thank you. Im a professional or semi professional web surfer. What is a -Stack Dump-? my Bin.exe has got different contents in it and I am trying to figure out what goes in to what?
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by Mike C.Aug 5, 2009 3:41 PM
I definitely reckon Tube8.com hacked redtube.com hands down.
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by FreddyAug 5, 2009 3:43 PM
My mate said to visit orsm.net at work and I nearly got fired. Anyways, I'm getting an error "Error: 1: 1101 2: c:\test.txt 3: -292320123" is that a stack Dump?
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by SCOM Man R2Aug 6, 2009 3:50 PM
I assume your Aussie. Are you Sure your mate didn't say "awesome".net? Bloody Aussie's and their weird accents.
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by DumbDumbAug 6, 2009 3:54 PM
What r u talking about it dumbdumb? I have found a solution to this security problem. Im getting error 2367 user aborted when i click on
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by SCOM Man R2Aug 6, 2009 4:01 PM
3 more days until the M.W security update to be release. It's going to be heardache for us at work, bet you this update will break something
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by DBA wannabeAug 6, 2009 4:08 PM
Im going to be putting SCOM alerts everywhere...so we could get alerted for any problems or no problems
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by SCOM wannabeAug 6, 2009 4:12 PM
That just deleted everything in my c drive:(
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by MikelSoft (Dah!)Aug 6, 2009 4:20 PM
I think I saw u on tube8.com its in the exclusive special section. "As an example to the "security professionals" of what *not* to do, no doubt."
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by PennoAug 6, 2009 4:26 PM
Me too Iain... contact me you've got my email address sweet cheeks.
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by Liquid WolfAug 6, 2009 4:27 PM
"I think Kyle Sandilands is a figment of his own imagination, frankly," John Laws told Vega 95.3FM, I love you lain
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by Benedick had just walked passedAug 6, 2009 4:31 PM
This whole forum is made up of Bone Smokers. :( Where's all the ladies?
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by ShitLipsAug 6, 2009 4:36 PM
Im a girl and I got hacked before and its not funny to the person in the last comment
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by Mimi MAug 6, 2009 4:46 PM
This is starting to look like the Spill your spean section in MX
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by jAug 6, 2009 4:47 PM
to the girl on the train with the red hat...ur hot
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by FreddyAug 6, 2009 4:49 PM
The comments are better than the article...well done guys
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by AD...my iphone doesnt't work after the updateAug 6, 2009 4:52 PM
Bin.exe? Use microsoft and you get what you deserve...obviously security wasn't a serious concern in design of the site. They took a gamble with security and simply lost. Why gamble when it costs so little not to?
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by PeteAug 18, 2009 7:24 AM
is there a connector for scom and redtube? we should get an alert if the website goes down.
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by WarLoRdSep 25, 2009 2:07 PM
I think there would be a Redtube Management pack for SCOM, but imaging how many alerts you'd get about things "going down". I definately wouldn't want to know when things "came back up"
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by LOLSep 25, 2009 2:10 PM
The article suggests a XSS attack using Web 2.0 technologies. I'd be leaning towards a competitor attack.
SC Magazine - comments icon Posted by lolJan 23, 2010 2:21 PM
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