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Published by Tormod

07-23-2006

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.

By Jay-qu on 07-23-2006

Re: Server problems

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!

By ronthepon on 07-23-2006

Re: Server problems

Hurray the forums are working again!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tormod

Peace be with his simple mind.

Meanwhile, may he roast in hell.

Good job Tormod... and others involved in the fixup.

By Mercedes Benzene on 07-23-2006

Stupid hackers!

It's also ironic that it occurred on the weekend of the HOPE conference.

By Tormod

on 07-23-2006

Re: Server problems

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.

By TheBigDog on 07-23-2006

Re: Server problems

It appears that our server problem is happening again.

Bill

By Tormod

on 07-23-2006

Re: Server problems

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheBigDog

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.

By Tormod

on 07-24-2006

Re: Server problems

Things are getting back to normal now.

By ronthepon on 07-24-2006

Re: Server problems

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tormod

Things are getting back to normal now.

Good! So...

I guess this had messed up your vacation... hadn't it?

By Mercedes Benzene on 07-24-2006

Re: Server problems

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tormod

Things are getting back to normal now.

YAY! The hackers have failed!
Good job Tormod!

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