Author Topic: forum Hacked (Read 335 times)

patm41 · « **on:** May 05, 2006, 02:28:03 PM »

Looks like the forum has been hacked.. :x

Racepres · « **Reply #1 on:** May 05, 2006, 03:10:40 PM »

And it is aggravatin'. Probably the mods can fix it ... just a time consuming ordeal. How to stop it is the question.... If this happens to my site I would take out a contract!! MV

Graybeard · « **Reply #2 on:** May 05, 2006, 06:07:46 PM »

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If this happens to my site I would take out a contract!! MV

On who? Since no posts were made no IP address was left. We'll try to ID them but if as in the past there is nothing left to ID them. Most always the attacks come from overseas where US laws do not apply and most of the time from countries who would only think it funny that a US site was hacked. Russian seems to be the one place we've had the most problems from in the last year or so.

Someone who knew what they were doing wrote a program. It's out there for anyone who wants it to get. The program does the work. Each time we find another security weakness we didn't know was there and close it. They can't ever again use this one to hack us. But how many more might there be?

qajaq59 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 06, 2006, 01:12:59 AM »

Well, it sure didn't take you long to fix it, so obviously you're a lot smarter then he is.

Racepres · « **Reply #4 on:** May 06, 2006, 10:11:37 AM »

Yes indeed it was fixed pronto!! When our site was hacked it came from the US so we had some [small] recourse. Am watching intently, as someday it will happen to me again, and I may need to "hire an expert" My way of sayin' good job to GB and his "staff". MV