Has The F 9/11 Site Been Hacked???

[Dinger]

I checked, and this is one of several lines:

Warning: fopen(/home2/sites/f911tix.com/www/fahrenheit911/cinemas/logs/FAHRENHEIT911.LOG): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home2/sites/f911tix.com/www/fahrenheit911/includes/logger.php on line 21


What the hell is that? Last week, Wisconsin had only 1 or 2 theaters showing F 9/11, and then back to the 9 or 10 it had showed earlier. NOW, I get some kind of screwed up message like above. What is happening?

[wjsander]

1. Someone could have moved the logfile

Or uploaded a new logfile, forgetting to change its permissions.

I wouldn't worry.

[Dogmudgeon]

2. Server overload, probably

Chances are it's taking so much traffic that it's freezing up. You're seeing an internal error message.

This film is turning out to be much more popular than anyone ever suspected.

I wonder why that is.

--bkl

[Dinger]

3. Thanks For Your Responses

It seems like that site has been having "problems"
I'm not exactly computer literate, so I sort of freak out when I see stuff like this, especially on DEMOCRATic sites.

[sendero]

4. It *could* be some kind of hack...

... but I agree with the others, most likely it is a garden-variety administrative error or a server that is handling tons more traffic than was anticipated.

Most hackers aim to do one of two things:

1) Keep the site pages from coming up at all. This is the easiest to accomplish, can can done pretty easily using a DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack. This method plants trojan progams in hundreds or thousands of computers (without the knowledge or permission of the owners) and when the trojan gets a signal it sends requests to the site as fast as it can. The site gets thousands of requests for pages each second, which will effective lock up most servers.

2) The home run. Replace or modify the site source (HTML or whatever) to change the message/content. This is pretty hard to do and almost impossible on a properly adminstered site because you have to crack passwords in most cases to do it.

If it ever really comes to a cyber-war, the left will win. Most intelligent hackers are left :), wannabees are right.