hcdarkmage Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 Funny thing happened over the Thanksgiving holiday . . . my company's website was highjacked. I personally didn't see it happen, mostly because I never go to the site on my days off, but I was told by my manager that another company made it so that anyone who typed in our web address was sent to a completely different site. How did they do that? I'm a little sketchy on the details, mostly because I am the "fix-it" programmer (one that fixes little details in the site, not code the whole thing). The main "Guru" told me little about what happened, but I found out when I tried to make changes to our phpMyadmin using my login and it told me I was locked out. He also told me that he locked everyone out. Is it possible to prevent this from happening again? Like I said, I don't know who, what, why or how they did it, but I would like to make sure it doesn't happen again. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/79436-how-do-they-highjack-a-site/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azu Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 If it's DNS poisoning, there's not much you can do other then have your users access your website directly by IP instead of domain name. Although I think it's more likely that they simply found an exploit in a PHP script or something and used it to put a redirect into your HTML. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/79436-how-do-they-highjack-a-site/#findComment-402260 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crew-Portal Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Or if your company site used a CMS they may have found a weakness and made your page look like thiers and change the likes to redirect to the links on thier site Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/79436-how-do-they-highjack-a-site/#findComment-404698 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azu Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 simply found an exploit in a PHP script or something Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/79436-how-do-they-highjack-a-site/#findComment-404894 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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