So it turns out that the admin of the rootshell-team.com forums has been copying and pasting content from this site into the “Tutorials” section of his forums without asking permission, or even giving any credit. I haven’t looked closer, but I imagine that the rest of the content on the site is ripped from other sources as well. Here’s an example:
With a little .htaccess magic:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?rootshell-team\.com [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|png)$ http://mcgrewsecurity.com/img/lolrootshellteam.jpg [R,L]
…it turns into this:
Until it gets taken down, you can see for yourself at these two links:
- http://www.rootshell-team.com/showthread.php?t=3749
- http://www.rootshell-team.com/showthread.php?p=7663
That was fun.
[...] Acredita tus fuentes y no hagas hotlinking. Si no quieres que alguien retoque tu .htaccess (los ficheros de configuración de Apache) por ejemplo. [...]
Cuidado con hacer Hotlinking…
El robo de ancho de banda consiste en copiar una imagen o el enlace a un recurso alojado en el servidor de un tercero, en lugar de subir una copia al tuyo. Siempre que un navegador hace una petición a ese enlace, se genera tráfico y eso supone un gas…
nice ^^
[...] goes all my cred
. Apparently the guy who runs this script kiddie haven finally found out about this post. I was wondering when that would happen. Apparently even the barely-literate can knock over a [...]