.httacess was missing but was hiden and replaced 10 milion people affected 50k emails
Today was nice day for some intern in our company one person got fired because he use winscp and also replace wrong file one server.
How this happen, intern got simple task: forward page to secure ssl. But PC that was used for this task had installed WINSCP and hidden file was replaced without confirmation ( prev. user config ). After that edit page was offline 500 error .htaccess file was there just hidden and Winscp was configuration to auto replace ( also i like this options in filezilla is just per session ).
How we can fix this in future
- if you think winscp use some kids who download po rn form FTP server you are really wrong
- show default hidden file or even display some popup if file are hidden and exists and its auto replaced.
How this happen, intern got simple task: forward page to secure ssl. But PC that was used for this task had installed WINSCP and hidden file was replaced without confirmation ( prev. user config ). After that edit page was offline 500 error .htaccess file was there just hidden and Winscp was configuration to auto replace ( also i like this options in filezilla is just per session ).
How we can fix this in future
- if you think winscp use some kids who download po rn form FTP server you are really wrong
- show default hidden file or even display some popup if file are hidden and exists and its auto replaced.
