So, yesterday I was able to recover three of the four partitions from the old hard drive. Of course, the data I need is on the fourth partition.
I spend most of yesterday trying to figure out some way of automating the process of trying every single partition boundary, then checking if a legitamate filesystem starts there… and I think I thought of one right before I went to sleep, but I don’t want to think about it any more, so I go to bed.
This morning, Luke knocks on my door to tell me that Ken had to shut down my machine because it was hosing the network. (Luckily, he just disconnected it, not turned it off.)
Long story short… I got hacked.
The bastard hacked root access, used my machine to DoS other machines (which was sucking up our bandwidth) and then cleaned his tracks. Turns out there’s this nice little program out there on the dark side of the Internet that allows any script kiddie to do this quickly and easily, and all they have to do it point it at a machine.
You see, because I’ve been reinstalling Linux so many times, I’ve forgotten to close certain ports… and paid for it.
I just want things to work again. I literally broke down and cried last night. I just can’t let it be. I can’t go out and enjoy myself, because I know that this problem is still there waiting for me.
Oh, and it goes without saying that if I ever find out who you are, you bastard, I’ll kill you.
(Kick a man while he’s down… what a miserable excuse for a human being.)
Poor Hamumu!
It’s only a machine..
wtf?
well, to the guy who hacked you, that guy can eat one. a BIG one.
I feel your pain on the loss of partitions though. In the past few days, I’ve seen at least four machines just fall down and bite it for no good freaking reason. Mine included. In a drunken mistake, I killed my mp3 partition on the Friday before last, didn’t save it until about the Monday after. Then, the day after, RIGHT FRICKING AFTER, my RAID decides to buy it.
I run RAID0, so you know what that entails. Luckily, I hadn’t killed the drive that still had the mp3s in the lost partition, so I was able to resave it.
Everything looks pretty solid since then, but everything is still a little weird. Those of us who’ve picked up the pieces after watching everything come crashing down are proceeding slowly and cautiously. Something’s definitely in the air.
Things fall apart, the center cannot hold!
700 points of meat damage
But, ah, first you have to tag him.
Re: 700 points of meat damage
I Got a Rock, indeed.