| Stay Out Super-Late Tonight ( @ 2008-10-09 22:00:00 |
| Entry tags: | picking up the pieces |
More hack info via
lazywriterbum, one of the maintainers of
bad_sex. The full info is beneath the cut below, but the relevant part for most of you is:
A number of people found keyloggers on their computers after they clicked the russian poetry site link. A few people actually attempted to translate it (the poem is about eating shit, apparently) and are regretting it. We are advising people to go to pack.google.com and download the free Spyware Doctor and run a scan, also running a scan via Housecall if they don't have an installed antivirus program on your computer.
I am so, so sorry, you guys.
insafemode was hit worse than I was -- he lost access to his Gmail as well -- and
dreamingjen has been suspended for a post she didn't make.
Full comment from
lazywriterbum:
Hey so... I'm the one who mentioned about insafemode and dreamingjen (dreamingjen was never a mod of bad_sex, but the hacker used insafemode's account to make her a mod AFTER deleting everyone else). I'm actually a maintainer of bad_sex, and an LJ friend of mine linked me to your post after I made a post on my journal, and she told me she thought that this was the same person. Hence the connection being made.
I've been in contact with insafemode over on facebook, letting him know what's been up. He was pretty grateful to hear that we knew what was up and were trying to help.
In the meantime, LJ have restored the maintainers to bad_sex, except for insafemode, because, as with you, the email address linked to his account has been changed and he hasn't got it back yet. Beyond that, the hacker also DID have access to his gmail account, his proper account, and it was, for a couple of days, totally useless. It took him a while to get it back, and now that he has, he's started using his akamuu account and trying to restore some of his posts. Because he hasn't got insafemode back yet, he's restoring them onto a blogspot account. Unfortunately, everything that's left is from 2005 and earlier.
I think dreamingjen has been suspended because the post made by her "account" constitutes hate speech against homosexuals, was against community rules, etc. I'm sure once she figures this she'll attempt to fix it, but since she doesn't have many LJ friends and wasn't much of a visible presence, it's probably harder for her to find a way around it. Indeed, she might be sitting there with no idea that anything of this even relates to bad sex, just thinking her email address and LJ have been hacked at the same time. Part of the problem also was that the community was turned into a moderated community with no comments allowed on the post--on the off chance her email wasn't also compromised, she wouldn't have received any comments alerting her that people thought she'd posted something bigoted and horrid.
The hacker was smart. But it might be possible they've suspended dreamingjen simply because she's the only unknown variable in this, because everyone knows insafemode very well and love him, and can vouch for his journal having been real.
A number of people found keyloggers on their computers after they clicked the russian poetry site link. A few people actually attempted to translate it (the poem is about eating shit, apparently) and are regretting it. We are advising people to go to pack.google.com and download the free Spyware Doctor and run a scan, also running a scan via Housecall if they don't have an installed antivirus program on your computer.
(Mind you, I have Spyware Doctor pro running right now and it's more trouble than it's worth. It uses pretty much all of my RAM, refuses to shut down and always demands to turn on on start-up, regardless of how often I tell it to STFU.)
ETA: ALSO:
One way to protect yourself is to implement a voluntary security question: https://www.livejournal.com/set_sec