Hi - I recently experienced a hacker attack on my web site. Someone calling themselves "core-project" managed to replace my index.html file with their own. After I got the site on-line again, the hacked index.html was gone!?

I have absolutely no idea how they managed to break in, but I was told that the hackers might exploit some of the script technologies on the site. Since I am using AJAX (beta 1) I was wondering if any of these scripts might used to perform a break-in on the server. The passwords I use are fairly strong so I doubt they guessed it.

Any comments?

Cheers

Thomas

Hi Thomas,

AJAX has some security issues to watch out for. Check this article(pdf) for details:

http://digg.com/tech_news/Hacking_AJAX

Also, try to find out about your hackers by parsing log files on the server, and use a firewall (ZoneAlarm is free)

HTH,

Vivek

hello,

and is there any thing which isn't? :)