And we're back

[Diezel Weazel]

I'm none the wiser !!!!

There's always a Payback .... Ya just won't see it Comin !!!!

[hobgoblin]

Well done everyone on getting the forum back up.

It's nice to be back. Out of curiosity, where does everyone go when the forum is down?

[Guest]

Hi all.

Because of the attack I have had to take the main site down and just leave it as the Forum while I investigate the security holes. I will get the other functionality - Chat, gallery etc etc... back as soon as possible however it may end up in a different format.

Anyway sorry for the inconvenience.

[plumb bob]

I just sit looking at my blank screen for days at a time, waiting for something to happen.

[Woodzie]

It's good to be back .......although i was enjoying playing at matt's
thanks again tho koi and lucky for their hard work


Oh and the mud club and the oz site have had minor problems too

[captain_chaos]

DoS attack = Denial of Service...this might help others comes with pics that made it easy for me..

http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~ddosvax/talks/ddos_td.pdf

Still didn't make much sense. Could it be explained through the medium of glove puppets perhaps?

[Guest]

A Denial Of Service attack means basically someone of less then decent manners running a programme which floods a site and fills up it's capacity for doing anything - like running thousands of requests all at once, the server runs out of memory, bandwidth etc and no-one can basicallay use it. what we had was some B****rd hacked the site, loaded up an application which sent out a DOS attack on someone else. This is why I have had to take down the other functionality on the site as I am pretty sure that the forum software has enough security in it to stop this happening but there must have been a security hole in one of the other files that allowed the git to load up the malicious files.

Hope that this makes sense, in any case I have plugged the hole.

And just for the record, if I ever find the git that did it, he will be wearing his wedding tackle up his nose and his arms up his a*se.

[joker??]

nice to be back cheers admin ,errrrr i aint been blamed yet

[captain_chaos]

A Denial Of Service attack means basically someone of less then decent manners running a programme which floods a site and fills up it's capacity for doing anything - like running thousands of requests all at once, the server runs out of memory, bandwidth etc and no-one can basicallay use it. what we had was some B****rd hacked the site, loaded up an application which sent out a DOS attack on someone else. This is why I have had to take down the other functionality on the site as I am pretty sure that the forum software has enough security in it to stop this happening but there must have been a security hole in one of the other files that allowed the git to load up the malicious files.

Hope that this makes sense, in any case I have plugged the hole.

And just for the record, if I ever find the git that did it, he will be wearing his wedding tackle up his nose and his arms up his a*se.

dam, thanks for clearing things up though. Guess there's no way of tracing the hacker then? And I'll be up for helping to rearange the hacker's body parts

[POPEYE]

Probably be some overseas bleeder, the ba$tards

[Apache]

Yep, well done guys!

Maybe there should be a compulsory £10 P/A membership so the admins can afford the mutha of all 'fort knox' style servers?

[smiffy]

Well done everyone on getting the forum back up.

It's nice to be back. Out of curiosity, where does everyone go when the forum is down?

Some of the guys go here in their time of need

Home from home


and some even go here Blimey

Good to see the forum up and running again

[Morr]

Well done everyone on getting the forum back up.

It's nice to be back. Out of curiosity, where does everyone go when the forum is down?

There's a couple of places,
http://hiluxsurf.eu/forum/index.php
http://bauchan.org/forum/index.php
http://com1.runboard.com/b4x4toys

[Bibs]

oops

[Bibs]

Wey hey

Have I missed you lot

Went away to the TT got back and you'd all gone - thought ya might be tryin to tell me summat. Luckily I found Woodzi on the Aussi site and he directed me to the other place you all go.

Nice one for gettin it back up an runnin - Ise gonna subscribe ASAP and hopefully other newbies may follow to help buy that mother of all security