{"id":696,"date":"2008-06-25T09:12:21","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T08:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/696-windows-server-compromised-by-php-application.html"},"modified":"2008-06-25T09:12:21","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T08:12:21","slug":"windows-server-compromised-by-php-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/696-windows-server-compromised-by-php-application.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows server compromised by PHP application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Bradley has posted her <a href=\"http:\/\/msmvps.com\/blogs\/bradley\/archive\/2008\/06\/24\/so-how-did-they-break-in.aspx\">analysis of how her Windows server was hacked<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is interesting to me, as Bradley is an expert on server administration and patching; I\u2019m glad she has had the courage to post all these details, thus benefiting the community, rather than pretending the server was down for emergency maintenance or the like.<\/p>\n<p>She thinks it was a <a href=\"http:\/\/secunia.com\/advisories\/17046\/\">security bug in IceWarp Web Mail<\/a>. This appears to be a PHP application. Although the bug has been fixed, she was running an old version because the new one broke some important features.<\/p>\n<p>The explanation sounds plausible to me. So is it applications rather than operating systems that form the most critical security weaknesses today? Yes, but both are involved. I would be interested to know whether the same bug in a Linux installation of IcwWarp would have been equally easy to escalate to the entire OS.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:3a2b6ca7-f48e-4c12-a7dc-ef552006e49e\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/security\" rel=\"tag\">security<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/php\" rel=\"tag\">php<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/windows\" rel=\"tag\">windows<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/icewarp\" rel=\"tag\">icewarp<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Bradley has posted her analysis of how her Windows server was hacked. This is interesting to me, as Bradley is an expert on server administration and patching; I\u2019m glad she has had the courage to post all these details, thus benefiting the community, rather than pretending the server was down for emergency maintenance or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/696-windows-server-compromised-by-php-application.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Windows server compromised by PHP application<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-php","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}