[Python-Dev] What is with the Python website?

[Michael Hudson]

Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> writes:

> On Jul 8, 2004, at 1:34 PM, John J Lee wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Michael Hudson wrote:
>>
>>> Paul Barrett <barrett at stsci.edu> writes:
>>>
>>>> It looks like www.python.org has been hacked.
>>>
>>> Looks perfectly normal to me.  What do you see?
>>
>> Black page with this silly script-kiddie message:
>>
>>
>>> HellFire Jodio tu sistema admin :)
>>>
>>> [Orgullosamente Dominicano]
>>>
>>> [CONTACTO: eu.undernet.org] [#Security-Labs]
>>>
>>> [hellroots at linuxmail.org] ]
>>>
>>> 14546 ttyp1 00:00:00 rootkit [I AM Backd00ring this B0x :)]
>>>
>>> 14945 pts/2 00:00:00 hide [backd00r sucess and hided ]
>>>
>>> 145946 pts/2 00:00:00 root [your are Hacked But u don't know]
>>> HellFire Jodio tu sistema admin :)
>
> Wow, I didn't see that... It worked at first, but now I see a 403
> Forbidden on www.python.org (but not docs.python.org)!

It was real, and is being fixed as we speak...

Cheers,
mwh

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