Tormod Posted July 23, 2006 Report Share Posted July 23, 2006 We have suffered a hacker attack and are working to recover from it. Some nice and friendly soul has compromised our server and messed up our web applications and database server. Peace be with his simple mind. His (or her) cleverness has, however, caused a lot of downtime since Saturday, and lots of work to isolate the issue. We have not solved it, but the forums are now open. If you find that you get blank pages or other strange behaviour, try to hit the back button in your browser and try something else. Some forums refuse to open, while others work fine. It is not clear why this happens. You might also get logged out all of a sudden. I am sorry for this situation but until we get this fixed things will be unstable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay-qu Posted July 23, 2006 Report Share Posted July 23, 2006 good job T, I will keep you informed of anything I find.. and if I get my hands on the low life that did this! well it wouldnt be pretty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronthepon Posted July 23, 2006 Report Share Posted July 23, 2006 Hurray the forums are working again!! Peace be with his simple mind.Meanwhile, may he roast in hell. Good job Tormod... and others involved in the fixup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercedes Benzene Posted July 23, 2006 Report Share Posted July 23, 2006 Stupid hackers! It's also ironic that it occurred on the weekend of the HOPE conference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tormod Posted July 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2006 I wonder how ironic or accidental it really is. I hope this was not caused by one of our members (banned or otherwise). Anyway, I hope we can avoid similar problems in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBigDog Posted July 23, 2006 Report Share Posted July 23, 2006 It appears that our server problem is happening again. Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tormod Posted July 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2006 It appears that our server problem is happening again. Bill It does still go on. I am going through a lot of files to find out which ones have been compromised. It's a loooong list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tormod Posted July 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 Things are getting back to normal now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronthepon Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 Things are getting back to normal now.Good! So... I guess this had messed up your vacation... hadn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercedes Benzene Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 Things are getting back to normal now. YAY! The hackers have failed! Good job Tormod! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tormod Posted July 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 Good! So... I guess this had messed up your vacation... hadn't it? Yes, it has taken a lot of work this weekend. :D Now I will try to stay away from the forums for the rest of this week. Okay, I'll give it a try, at least. :cup: But I've just been on the phone with our host, Viviotech - http://www.viviotech.net/ - and they're going to help us build a new server and monitor for future hacker attempts. They have been very helpful today and I am very happy we're hosting with them. We were a bunch of Hypography people chatting on Saturday night when the forums were down and it's great to see the community spirit...people get upset when the site is down. :) Back to vacationeering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queso Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 A hacker? Really? Damn,what a d*** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay-qu Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 hopefully thats the last we see of him/her! great work T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercedes Benzene Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 It's lucky that we did not suffer problems that were too destructive. Imagine if all of the threads just disappeared. ::gasp:::shrug: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tormod Posted July 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 It's lucky that we did not suffer problems that were too destructive. Imagine if all of the threads just disappeared. ::gasp:::cup: That's why we have backup, Merc...to save your golden writings for posterity. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jamongo Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 and if I get my hands on the low life that did this! well it wouldnt be pretty! Damn, what a d*** hopefully thats the last we see of him/her! Meanwhile, may he roast in hell. Stupid hackers! Are you all sure you don't want to sit down and negotiate with him or her, as the case may be?:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tormod Posted July 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Are you all sure you don't want to sit down and negotiate with him or her, as the case may be?:) Why? Do you know her? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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