I discovered that my DreamHost account appears to have been "hacked". What does this PHP code do and what's a good way to get rid of it? [more inside]
posted by yellowbkpk on May 11, 2009 - 2 answers

Can I use htaccess to deny certain non-existent directories in order to avoid going through my Drupal site (which requires connecting to my database)? [more inside]
posted by kosmonaut on Jan 2, 2009 - 7 answers

What in the world is going on with this website (subject of a recent askme)? Have a look at these google results: site:carolscookies.com inurl:locator. Is this an indication that the website's been hacked, or is this the kind of disgusting behavior that passes for SEO these days? [more inside]
posted by jepler on Dec 18, 2008 - 6 answers

We've been hacked! We were just about to upgrade the Joomla version, and then we get this. Looks to be a ransom page, but we obviously want to reverse the hack. How do we do this? [more inside]
posted by wile e on Sep 4, 2008 - 12 answers

What do you do when you think you've been hacked, but don't know how? [more inside]
posted by studentbaker on Aug 5, 2008 - 18 answers

Some really important info was leaked from our private IRC channel on our own server. Luckily, it was something that most people wouldn't believe without real proof, which the leaker didn't really have. So we're glad to have not been in a real shit-hit-the-fan situation yet. Can you find the weak link, or atleast offer suggestions on how to stop this from happening again? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Jul 16, 2008 - 11 answers

Did someone hack my cell phone or somehow use my number? Do I need to worry about my phone being compromised or something? Someone left a voicemail for my friend and there's no outgoing call on my phone nor would anyone have had access to it (it was at my house, we were asleep.) When I checked my phone log, I found that a few minutes earlier I had a missed call from someone who does not have my number and denies having called me. [more inside]
posted by palegirl on Jun 30, 2008 - 10 answers

A website I programmed got hacked. Credit card numbers were compromised. What do I do now? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on May 30, 2008 - 22 answers

My 15" Powerbook from 2003, running OS X.3, just froze up and demanded that I restart my computer. Why? [more inside]
posted by thecaddy on May 15, 2008 - 9 answers

My Yahoo! email was hacked. What can I do? [more inside]
posted by blueplasticfish on May 8, 2008 - 5 answers

Site hacked again 4 years later. I need some advice. [more inside]
posted by sailormouth on May 5, 2008 - 14 answers

How can I restore my totally disgustingly porn-hacked Wordpress blog to its former pristine state? [more inside]
posted by Drohan on Apr 11, 2008 - 15 answers

Pages on my website are getting strange javascript, iframes, & links placed in them... This isn't affecting the other sites I host... what's going on? [more inside]
posted by aristan on Jan 8, 2008 - 12 answers

My hotmail acct has been hacked/cracked and is being used to spam people including a few MeFites. I'm pissed and concerned. Please hope me! [more inside]
posted by snsranch on Dec 31, 2007 - 14 answers

There's a brand-new user account showing up on my Windows XP SP2 desktop. Only thing is, I didn't create it, and nobody else has physical access to my machine. [more inside]
posted by number9dream on Jul 10, 2007 - 3 answers

Can an Oyster Card be hacked? [more inside]
posted by complience on Jun 22, 2007 - 18 answers

Can you translate this short paragraph from Polish into English please? It involves some "L33t" speak so it may be challenging. [more inside]
posted by allthewhile on Nov 9, 2006 - 6 answers

Any ideas on how to retaliate against someone who hacked into my email account and changed my password? Or should I even bother? [more inside]
posted by La Gata on Oct 1, 2006 - 14 answers

Wuz she hax0r3d?
Scenarios that explain this situation, please: Someone (not I) tries to connect to the 'Net on her AOHell account & gets an error message, the gist of which is "Ain't gonna log you on; reppy5 is already logged on to your account at another location." reppy5 is not one of the accounts/screen-names she has ever created. Has she been hacked? Used as a zombie? Hacked by a zombie? A zombie for what, for spam? [more inside]
posted by Shane on Feb 3, 2006 - 12 answers

If you ran a Debian server and one day noticed that telnet and apt-get were segfaulting, how would you proceed? [more inside]
posted by jojopizza on Jan 2, 2006 - 20 answers

Has anyone used one of the hacked windows XP-lite distros? The ones that remove unnecessary stuff and leave you with a faster machine? a- how stable are they, can you use them for resource intensive apps like photoshop, autocad, etc.? b- do they support non-english keyboards? c- is the performance gain worth the hassle of finding and installing them? [more inside]
posted by signal on Dec 14, 2005 - 8 answers

A couple months ago my site was lightly hacked. It happened again on a site for a friend of my father, possibly not as lightly. --> [more inside]
posted by sailormouth on Sep 14, 2004 - 4 answers