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52 hours of maintenance that was unannounced?? Umm sure, ok...
Yeah I was missing the site too. Glad it is back online now.
^thisKyle were you using the vbulletin version that had the recently announced flaw in it? version 3.8.6 i think it is..
No need to apologize to any of us, we're all just happy to see the forums back up and functional.
We, and I'm fairly sure I speak for everyone, appreciate the efforts the Admins, the Mods, and you yourself put into this place.
Thanks...
Also, you need to replace the vBulletin favicon.
at first I thought it was my work blocking it...then I thought
I went a bit crazy with no [H] in my life..
The forums were hacked.
We have been hacked three times in 13 years. We are not sure the motivation this time, but it was not "malicious." In the past it has been spammers/phishers using our resources to send out their mails. This time, like before, nothing was damaged, there were simply processes running that were invisible to us and using all the box's resources. Box is a dual Quad Xeon with 16GB of RAM. It took them at least 3 days to get in (from what we can see in the logs), and these guys were very very slick. Have to give them kudos on their talents. I am sure they are making plenty of money with their skill set.
From our past experience with this, we have learned that it is best to start from ground zero in the box that was compromised. So we are doing a full OS and vBulletin install. It has been a couple of years since we did this so there are some upgrades to be made as well.
We have put a measure in place to safeguard us from downtime like this in the future. Sorry for the inconvenience.
I assume the password database and/or any other parts of the forum that would make people worried, etc. did not get touched in the process?
Were you running on 3.8.6 at the time you got hacked?
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No worries for me, even if teh database is encrypted. All my passwords are uniquely [H]ard with KeePass.I assume the password database and/or any other parts of the forum that would make people worried, etc. did not get touched in the process?
favicon.ico is for your site, not for an individual program, it is placed in the public_html or aka root doc folder of your site. it will take a few for everyones browsers to see it, so be patient, its there.
I assume the password database and/or any other parts of the forum that would make people worried, etc. did not get touched in the process?
I was really traumatized by the recent downtime and I am writing a book about what I experienced when I was forced out into the daylight.
You should look up rainbow tables and the way salt works if that is what you think...as far as I know passwords are encrypted so there isnt really a way to retrieve them if you hack in. at least I think that is the case.