A week ago I helped a friend hack a torrent tracker. He came to me with a sysop password. It turned out to work and I started to go to work. Took me about 1 min before I found my way in, to place a shell via an old IPB-forum. I upped a shell via the admin panel and it all was over in a few minutes. Why I’am writing about this is that yesterday the tracker went down. Apparently some evil monkeys was on the server to. I don’t really know what happened but there aren’t many scenarios.
1. They saw my attack and put the server down for a look over.
2. My friend gave the shell to someone stupid.
3. It was a coincident and bad luck.
The rumor say’s it was a punch of former staff that was angry. So who knows might as well be option number three. It’s wasn’t a big hack but I allway get jumpy when they find my shells. Although I hadn’t put much effort in hiding it. Promised by friend I have another go at it. This time I’ll not underestimate them. =)