Tennis portal hacked
All of you probably know that I don’t go to bed early. Well, I did that tonight, I was feeling quite tired (or just nothing on the screen interested me). I went to bed around 12, impressed? No, unfortunately I wasn’t allowed to have a good sleep. Got a call telling me that my hobby site HKTennis.com was hacked!
Suddenly I had to jump out of my bed and started working again. Damn it! I have to blame the software the site runs on - the once beloved but notorious PHPNuke. More than four years ago, I was amazed by its ease of use and capabilities, just like M$, when something gets really popular it will become a target of attack.
The site was filled with hacker messages and the latest articles were all gone. I had to dig into the database to manually remove all those embarrassing data. Now I have to make a decision: should I still keep the site? If yes, I must do something about it. Since the site has been heavily modified, a straight upgrade to the latest 7.0 seems impossible, and that may not solve the problems too. So I am contemplating moving it to another portal system, like XOOPS. In view of the large amount of data, I’m going to have a rough weekend…
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