Graphical Statistics for October 2001
At the 24th of September an advisory was released from twlc.net about a new PHPNuke bug which affects all PHPNuke versions on all platforms basicly. PHPNuke is mostly ran on linux though. This is the most likely cause that the Linux defacements have gone up this month, I strongly doubt this "trend" will continue next month. According to the daily defacement graphics we can see that at the 5th of October the daily defacements went up from around 30 to 80 defacements / day. Perhaps this exploit and possible howto reached the defacement scene at that point.
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