Author Topic: WTF is up with LocalArcade??? (Read 8072 times)

HoopstarsGarage · « **on:** June 30, 2006, 04:20:18 am »

I went to Local Arcade for some vector graphic goodness today and was staggered - check it out..

http://www.localarcade.com/

Appears to have been hacked..??!!

Hoops

The sooner the Middle East is turned into a glass car park, the better life will be..

NIVO · « **Reply #1 on:** June 30, 2006, 05:13:16 am »

hehe, i guess infiltrating arcades is next. Guess your lightsabers ready fellas

yhw4life · « **Reply #2 on:** June 30, 2006, 05:43:22 am »

I had a site running a while ago...maybe got 100 visitors a year..and thats a stretch.

It got hacked by one of those things. Pretty sad if you ask me.

Circo · « **Reply #3 on:** June 30, 2006, 06:14:11 am »

My site has been hacked twice. Really sucks!

Havok · « **Reply #4 on:** June 30, 2006, 07:16:42 am »

Gotta keep up with those patches - most likely this dweeb used an existing exploit.

patrickl · « **Reply #5 on:** June 30, 2006, 08:14:46 am »

Yeah I maintained a couple of php-nuke sites (actually still do some, but less now). There are so many patches needed to keep it safe and every dumb punk can hack your site if you don't. They can often just look up the exploits on google because of the lame embedded copyright notice you almost always need for something readily available.

On of those got hacked of course and I checked up on the guy. He had hacked 3000 sites at that moment! What's the use?

It's like someone throwing a rock through your window and claiming that you should have made the glass stronger. Amazing how asocial people become when they feel they are anonymous. Of course they can be found, but noone bothers really.

Depressing.

mahuti · « **Reply #6 on:** June 30, 2006, 08:15:32 am »

Back online.

And since it's on a shared server, there's not much I can do about patching, except keep backups of the content... which I do.

Havok · « **Reply #7 on:** June 30, 2006, 08:19:02 am »

Quote from: mahuti on June 30, 2006, 08:15:32 am

Back online.

And since it's on a shared server, there's not much I can do about patching, except keep backups of the content... which I do.

But can you at least keep that arabic pop music running?

MYX · « **Reply #8 on:** June 30, 2006, 10:12:45 am »

Arabic pop music??? I wanna hear it.
I dig stuff like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. He was under Peter Gabriels Real World label. I dig world music in general. So Bring it On.

patrickl · « **Reply #9 on:** July 02, 2006, 06:03:21 pm »

Mahuti,

It got hacked again? Or didn't you fix it yet?

thread on artwork forum about it

Havok · « **Reply #10 on:** July 03, 2006, 07:32:20 am »

Quote from: MYX on June 30, 2006, 10:12:45 am

Arabic pop music??? I wanna hear it.
I dig stuff like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. He was under Peter Gabriels Real World label. I dig world music in general. So Bring it On.

Quick! Check it out - that dork re-hacked (?) the site.

Mahuti - you should definitely complain about this, these guys can't keep their site secure, even after being hacked once?

patrickl · « **Reply #11 on:** July 03, 2006, 07:50:17 am »

Did you install a new version of the software? Otherwise the vulnerability might (will) still be present.

missioncontrol · « **Reply #12 on:** July 03, 2006, 09:05:26 am »

Quote from: Havok on July 03, 2006, 07:32:20 am

Quote from: MYX on June 30, 2006, 10:12:45 am
Arabic pop music??? I wanna hear it.
I dig stuff like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. He was under Peter Gabriels Real World label. I dig world music in general. So Bring it On.

Quick! Check it out - that dork re-hacked (?) the site.

Mahuti - you should definitely complain about this, these guys can't keep their site secure, even after being hacked once?

crap and this computer doesn't have speakers......

MYX · « **Reply #13 on:** July 03, 2006, 12:22:15 pm »

Dude that is freaky. They decalired jihad on the ArcadeArt Library.

Havok · « **Reply #14 on:** July 03, 2006, 02:03:37 pm »

Quote from: MYX on July 03, 2006, 12:22:15 pm

Dude that is freaky. They decalired jihad on the ArcadeArt Library.

Fools! The Galaxians will kick their asses!

RayB · « **Reply #15 on:** July 03, 2006, 05:57:45 pm »

"Sorry : This Is Not Game . It's My Work"

F#@^%*in JERKS!

IG-88 · « **Reply #16 on:** July 03, 2006, 07:13:14 pm »

Quote from: HoopstarsGarage on June 30, 2006, 04:20:18 am

The sooner the Middle East is turned into a glass car park, the better life will be..

I hear that!

Sizzler · « **Reply #17 on:** July 05, 2006, 03:08:44 am »

hacked again

mahuti · « **Reply #18 on:** July 05, 2006, 11:06:57 am »

yeah, that's pretty lame.

I'm looking into it.

mahuti · « **Reply #19 on:** July 05, 2006, 11:57:58 am »

Alright, I did my due diligence... I upgraded everything I had, dumped old content, removed a few flaky things. we'll see if it keeps up. Please PM me if you see it hacked again. My guess is that it is a pretty low-level (read; EASY) hack the perp is doing. I find it odd that only the front page has been defaced... so either the hacker's too lazy to hack anything else, or their script is really crappy.

You know, the worst thing about "hackers" is that they're so boring. Most of them just find some site online with an exploit, and then go use it. There's no art to it, and they don't generate anything beautifully good, or beautifully destructive. Most of the script kiddies just do the online equivalent of squishing bugs, and then scream LOOK AT HOW GREAT I AM. It's so lame.

pointdablame · « **Reply #20 on:** July 05, 2006, 01:38:25 pm »

Looks to me like http://localarcade.com is working just fine, but http://www.localarcade.com is still t3h 1337 h4><0r3d

mahuti · « **Reply #21 on:** July 05, 2006, 01:39:22 pm »

my guess is you need a cache dump & refresh. they go to the same spot, and I'm seeing them fine here.

GoPodular.com · « **Reply #22 on:** July 05, 2006, 02:53:26 pm »

I don't know if this relates or not, but I've been fighting with QWEST today...

Right now if I go to "http://localarcade.com/", everything is fine. If I go to "http://www.localarcade.com/" I can't even connect to the server. I'm having the opposite issue at other sites. "http://www.google.com" works but "http://google.com" does not. I think something is busted somewhere on this information highway.

Of course QWEST told me to contact my computer manufacturer (I built it, so I guess that's me).

Angry_Radish · « **Reply #23 on:** July 05, 2006, 09:21:20 pm »

In a command prompt (start -> run --> cmd *enter*), try typing:
ipconfig /flushdns
May help your resolver cache, otherwise it's probably your ISP's DNS server

NightGod · « **Reply #24 on:** July 06, 2006, 12:40:11 am »

You can always just go to the page and do a CTRL+F5-that forces your browser to re-DL everything on the page rather than using cached files.

pointdablame · « **Reply #25 on:** July 06, 2006, 10:47:01 am »

FWIW, it wasn't a cache issue on my end. I tried it first before I left for work, then noticed the difference while I was at work....

They are both working now though, so who knows.

GoPodular.com · « **Reply #26 on:** July 06, 2006, 11:06:31 am »

Quote from: Angry_Radish on July 05, 2006, 09:21:20 pm

In a command prompt (start -> run --> cmd *enter*), try typing:
ipconfig /flushdns
May help your resolver cache, otherwise it's probably your ISP's DNS server

I flushed the local & got a new set of DNS servers from QWEST. Problem solved on my end. Thanks!

gamecreature · « **Reply #27 on:** July 06, 2006, 11:45:33 am »

Maybe it was all a distraction so kolo666 could put up 150 comments with porn links all over the site.

zorg · « **Reply #28 on:** July 07, 2006, 06:08:53 am »

Quote from: gamecreature on July 06, 2006, 11:45:33 am

Maybe it was all a distraction so kolo666 could put up 150 comments with porn links all over the site.

I removed those insane comments some days ago. and now comments are disallowed ....

hey guys if yoou notice some incorect contents on AAL let us know
I try to check AAL twice a day, but I can't check everything on it.

SithMaster · « **Reply #29 on:** July 07, 2006, 10:34:44 am »

if the middle east was a glass parking lot 1)its bad for the tires and 2)why would anyone park there?

but i agree nothing good comes from the east.

if you have problems with loading pages just do a debug all command.

gamecreature · « **Reply #30 on:** July 07, 2006, 10:52:11 am »

That's assuming it's not some kid in Russia who happens to like that kind of music...

subcriminal · « **Reply #31 on:** September 24, 2006, 06:03:54 pm »

So whats happening with the site?

I need to do a new CPO for my cab and I lost my artwork. Went to download it and localarcade's still hacked.

Texasmame · « **Reply #32 on:** September 24, 2006, 06:32:10 pm »

h4X0R3D again currently

johnm160 · « **Reply #33 on:** September 24, 2006, 06:46:13 pm »

you need to dump your logs and go after this little bastard already.

mahuti · « **Reply #34 on:** September 24, 2006, 11:23:19 pm »

Hacked at 1:25. Fixed now. Currently going after a software update.

OH, and Johnm160.... sorry if I don't rush right out and find the IP address of this lame hacker from some crappy third-world country and fire off a nasty email to his service provider. You got so much free time... you go after this little bastard already.

mahuti · « **Reply #35 on:** September 25, 2006, 03:12:30 am »

Well, it only took 5 hours, but I upgraded the software with a new version the features a lot of security fixes. I don't know if it'll help, but at least I gave it a shot.

mahuti · « **Reply #36 on:** September 25, 2006, 03:57:31 am »

Alright, you'll be happy to know that I DID dump my logs and find what appears to be the "lil bastard." His IP happens to attach to a Turkish Internet Provider, which I've since banned. The Turkish flag not so coincidentally appeared in the hack job which makes me believe that this is indeed the smoking gun... not to mention all of the odd POST operations by that IP address to places that there shouldn't be POSTS to. At least not by anybody but me.

I also happened to fire off a nasty email to the not-so-third-world country's internet provider.

Will it help? I don't know. If any of you have an issue connecting to the site, please post here so I can take a further look.

Santoro · « **Reply #37 on:** September 25, 2006, 07:46:08 am »

Who is your provider? Please say it's not 1&1?

subcriminal · « **Reply #38 on:** September 25, 2006, 12:57:07 pm »

Glad to see the site back up again

I may have to update my forum since seeing this it seems weird attacking the arcade art library... maybe his Mame cab went badly

postalp123 · « **Reply #39 on:** September 25, 2006, 01:53:42 pm »

Man I know how that feels...

Back when I had a Homepage for a Martial Arts school I was running in Michigan, some F-n' b@stard posted an advertisement to his pornsite in our guestbook, then hacked and changed the admin password to it so we couldn't erase his post.

Considering 80% of our clientel were 10 year olds, you can see the sheer wrongness of it.

Took me a while and a 2 stage hardware server firewall to calm down from that one.


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