Comments on: Media Temple Hacked

By: Don

Don — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:24:58 +0000

We host on liquidnet ie ResellersPanel and MANY MANY sites were hacked the same time Your hosting got nailed. Except ResellersPanel is in full denial mode blamming each customer for 100s of lost or hacked websites.

They are out right rude to the point of making threats if anyone tells the public.

Good Luck with yours, we’ll be moving ours.

By: Florian

Florian — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:29:22 +0000

It’s shocking to hear that passwords are stored as plain text, security is never perfect, but leaving the front door open and expecting noone to simply walk in is very unprofessional in my opinion.

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By: Viktor

Viktor — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:33:20 +0000

It’s a common decease for some old companies – they still use the outdated code and practices.

Once my site used a web shop service which stored credit cards along with CVV2 plaintext right within your account. On top of that, password reminder phrases, if you guess them right, did not generate a new password, but just give you the old one.

So Media Temple isn’t that bad at all (especially since rainbow tables for hashes were invented).

By: hsabbir

hsabbir — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:41:00 +0000

I faced similar problem with my host, but I discovered the reason , it was not their problem, my password was stolen by a malicious attacker which stole them from a old version of Cute FTP where those pass were stored.

They attacked each site which were saved in the CuteFtp, injected a code to each index*.*, default*.* file and within 1 day I started getting call from my clients.

By: MediaTemple.net | What have your experiences been like? | Adam Daniel Mezei

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:42:28 +0000

[...] Interesting post from back in Nov. 2009 about possible compromised databases and hacking activity over at Media Temple. What’s been your expereince with your host or with MT if you host your site with them? [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:36:08 +0000

Billbo Baggins: there is not a thing like secure when you share your host with other’s.

By: Will Bradley

Will Bradley — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:29:03 +0000

Personally, I signed up for a VPS.net node. If a bit of server admin doesn’t scare you, it appears to work great.

By: Billbo Baggins

Billbo Baggins — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:30:04 +0000

does anyone know where I CAN get secure hosting?

By: Bill Bobaggins

Bill Bobaggins — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:54:03 +0000

Database programming 001…NEVER put passwords in a TEXT database. I think a HOMELESS person off the street would know that.