hacked

the most perfect time to have your server hacked is:

1. when your backup server is down
2. when you're just about to approach a holiday
3. when it's late in the day and you're just ready to go home.

all of my wishes came true today. we were hacked - and notified of our said hack by the lovely men and women of the psu security quad - via email.

the hackers installed ftp software on our server in an attempt to setup their very own warez site.

awesome.

we had known this was coming however we had another fish to fry... i have, been in the midst of trying to repair a down powervault that stores gigs and gigs worth of data that supports our applications. while i finally was able to order the correct part that got the thing online - our data is still questionable and thus switching the apps from the hacked server to the backups wasn't an option.

so, we decided to switch the home pages to another server and place "site temporarily down" messages on each home page. i guess it's better than a blank "page not found" screen - but this process will take time as it requires yet another division of the psu IT department to reroute (change the dns settings) of all of our urls... all the while i'm waiting for an email from our server admin saying "the data has been recovered from the powervault"... even though i'm fairly certain this won't happen...

grrrrr.... luckily i was in a good enough mood today to suck it up and just do what i could without getting stressed.

damn hackers tho - don't they have anything better to do?