Re: www.vitech.mu

From: Shelly Hermia Bhujun <shelly.bhujun_at_umail.uom.ac.mu>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 23:03:50 +0400

Thank you Ish and Cédric.

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Thank you

Le 7/22/2015 10:53 PM, Ish Sookun a écrit :
> Hi Shelly,
>
> On 7/22/15 10:31 PM, Shelly Hermia Bhujun wrote:
>>
>> I don't understand, you said that www.vitech.mu is compromised but i can
>> access all the links on the website.
>> Please explain how you noticed it got hacked:
>> http://www.elandsys.com/~sm/www-vitech-mu-compromised.png
>
> When we say a website got compromised, it means its security has been
> breached. For example, not everyone on the internet would have rights
> to upload a document or picture on a certain website. Website owners
> would restrict such actions otherwise anyone could upload content such
> as pornography, malware, warez and cause prejudice to the person.
> Thus, when a person happens to breach such security and uploads
> something or modifies the existing content, we say the website got
> compromised.
>
> A text document named "al.txt" which contains the wordings "Hacked by
> the_warri0r" has been uploaded on vitech.mu. Thus, its security has
> been *compromised*.
>
> You can still access the website's original content on www.vitech.mu.
> If that was changed to something more compromising, we would have
> called it a "web defacement".
>
> Web defacement information is usually published on zone-h.org.
>
> I hope it answers.
>
> Regards,
>
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