Comments on: carlzimmer.com hacked

By: Claire C Smith

Claire C Smith — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:09:49 +0000

Why did I say mag?? I meant to say site (it was late, honest! Lol!) and yes I can’t access this either withouth that command box thing.

Good luck either way Carl!

Claire

By: David Dobbs

David Dobbs — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:00:17 +0000

Well this is an ugly bummer. As much as I’d like to see my own productivity on a par with Carl’s, I wouldn’t want it made to seem so by decreasing his apparent output. May the files soon return and the perpetrator caught and similarly … .well, DELETED would be a bit strong. But hacked, whacked, smacked, or something.

Best to you, Carl, and keep ‘em coming.

By: Greg R. Fishbone

Greg R. Fishbone — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:42:07 +0000

I feel for you, Carl. It’s been going around–they got my author site, another author’s site that I designed, and sites for three writing groups I host on the same server. And guess who had to spend all day cleaning up the mess…

By: Claire C Smith

Claire C Smith — Thu, 14 May 2009 02:02:19 +0000

Just about to log off- but like Michelle asked, does the mag back up data? It’ll right itself…
C.

By: jb

jb — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:02:19 +0000

Carl:

Well, that’s a shame. Sorry to be wrong, sir.

By: Trimegistus

Trimegistus — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:25:05 +0000

“Right-Wingers” — the new all-purpose scapegoats. Server crash? Right-wingers did it. Can’t get a table? Right-wingers stole them.

Here’s a hypothesis: maybe you were hacked by mindless, knee-jerk leftists who have to shoehorn every incident into their personal set of political stereotypes.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:03:21 +0000

There’s some data from Feb ’08 here: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://carlzimmer.com/articles/index.php

By: Mr. Gunn

Mr. Gunn — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:54:33 +0000

Most service providers keep backups, even if they don’t say they do. Here’s hoping you’re on tape drive somewhere.

By: Carl Zimmer

Carl Zimmer — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:24:32 +0000

jb–Unfortunately, it is definitely a hack. We even know the IP address of the hacker, who got into my account at http://cutephp.com/ and even put some files there.

By: jb

jb — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:21:25 +0000

Looks like the server itself forgot how to present php. May not even be a hack.

Have your provider check out their install.

By: Mark Siddall

Mark Siddall — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:46:25 +0000

Right-wing hack used to refer to people like George Will, Bil l O’Reilly etc. Seems there is a new definition.

By: QUASAR

QUASAR — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:34:38 +0000

Ugh! That has got to be very annoing!

By: synergy

synergy — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:28:23 +0000

Any idea who it was? I hope you have backups. Good thing the bookcover poll is elsewhere!

By: eduard

eduard — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:26:13 +0000

It could be a less sinister hack: some bot bit decided the traffic to your site was worth hijacking, and went and did it, indifferent to whatever content may lie within.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:13:26 +0000

I’m so sorry to hear of this. Please tell us you have them backed up somewhere?

By: Jonathan Eisen

Jonathan Eisen — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:50:24 +0000

Well, let’s see. You write extensively about evolution. You take on George Will and other anti-science folks who don’t do fact checking. You glorify tattoos. And so on. You seem to be a perfect target for right wing hackers. Not that I know of too many such hackers, but there must be a few.