Re: Fwd: Rate Stratfor's Incident Response

[Laurelai <laurelai () oneechan org>]

On 1/7/12 2:48 PM, Ferenc Kovacs wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com 
> <mailto:noloader () gmail com>> wrote:
>
>     http://bolt.thexfil.es/84e9h!t <http://bolt.thexfil.es/84e9h%21t>
>     was an interesting link - it
>     demonstrated the pwnage.
>
>     It looks like these folks gained access via PHP. Stratfor was using a
>     Linux based system system, but PHP was version 1.8
>     from 2009 (perhaps with some back patches). Current version of PHP is
>     5.3.8 (http://www.php.net/).
>
>
> O really? PHP 1.8? how would you compile that on a modern linux distro?
> how would you run drupal on top of it?
>
> // $Id: default.settings.php,v 1.8.2.4 2009/09/14 12:59:18 goba Exp $
> that is a line from the default drupal config file.
>
> I agree that the php app was the most likely source of the intrusion, 
> I would guess that they didn't kept the drupal core and the contrib 
> modules up-to-date, and they were owned through some old vulnerability.
>
> --
> Ferenc Kovács
> @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
>
>
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And again it makes me wonder how many other so called security companies 
are just as vulnerable.
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