So, this post is actually by tomreyn.
His email is: alsterwassermann (at) gmx.de
I was just helping him post this before he registered.
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1. Since the forum requires password authentication to post it is necessary to setup transport encryption (httpS). I can offer to provide a cacert.org or startssl.org certificate free of charge.
Statistics show that even when users' should use generated unique (per website) passwords they will often actually reuse a known password on several websites.
So if their password gets stolen at a site which failed to provide SSL encryption for the authentication, and those credentials were sniffed, it is not unlikely those credentials will also work against other websites.
2.
http://glest.org/en/index.php looks like the website was compromised. Scroll down to the bottom or see the source code. It contains spam links. (EDIT: Links are still changing,
the php code inclided in the page may be active in that it loads new web links to display from a remoote side every new day (when the php script is invoked from a web browser or search engine bot). however, this doesn't neccessarily mean the former illegitimate access is still active.
though it would sure seem possible.
display=none, wrapped in <script></script> is so that it will show up in search engine indexes but not in users' web browsers
they just want to increase the search engine ranking of the site the links point to.
)
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Those links are embedded in a PHP file apparently. As such, it must be assumed that the web hosting account was (at least partially) compromised.
This is often due to an insecure FTP login/password, insecure web application (forum software with known security issues?), but can also be due to a sniffed FTP authentication session (since FTP is not encrypted by default).
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