Denverdave
Resident Ragamuffin
You are assuming we ever say anything worth saving in the first place.....
Well - your lesson stuff definitely is....
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You are assuming we ever say anything worth saving in the first place.....
Well - your lesson stuff definitely is....
BoomBoomBigelow
Genius of Love
Guitar Heel
Demented Trick
Good luck. We're all counting on you.
BoomBoomBigelow
Genius of Love
Originally Posted by TDPRI View Post
"Early this morning some hacker bot penetrated one of our server's defenses and placed malicious code on some software that generates code for all of our websites. We were notified very quickly and took steps to both remove the malicious code but also to prevent it from happening again.
As soon as we learned of the problem we shut down all of our websites and got working on the problem. As best we can tell, the malicious code existed on our server for approximately 4 hours -- from approximately 7am EDST to approximately 11 am EDST.
Google has put malware warnings on TDPRI.com and Strat-Talk.com but the malicious code effected ALL of our websites.
We are confident that the malicious code is now gone and we have requested that Google rescan our sites to remove the warnings. Once this is done and you don't see the Google warnings any longer you can be confident that all traces of the problem have been removed.
We take security very seriously and are sorry that this episode took place. We will redouble our efforts to insure that this kind of indecent doesn't reoccur.
Thanks for your patience."
Cyber-Vandals and Cyber-Visi-Goths & Pillaging Huns & Hooligans and/or Eastern European and/or Southern Californian and/or Mexican Drug Cartels are responsible for the indecent incidents.
Either that or ecstasy-addled script-kiddies from Schaumburg, Illinois. Or disgruntled OSU boosters. Maybe it's OWS 99%'ers with nothing better to do. Maybe it was my mom. Oh Noes!
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Peeker
jerkass
Peeker's mother mistakes me for Antonio Banderas
prepare to die
BoomBoomBigelow
Genius of Love
Why won't my arms move?
BoomBoomBigelow
Genius of Love
Tell me about it.
(East coast translation; Fahgeddaboutit. 21st century translation: I know. Right?)
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Woody_in_MN
Coptic Orthodox Deacon
When I saw the problems that HC was having, that was actually a thought I had in the back of my mind. There is a type of attack that bombards a site with requests. It can bring down your site. You have to have pretty sophisticated resources (including smart people) to defeind against that. I might have been too harsh in my criticism of HC. Some attacks are very hard to defend.
Thats the thing...there is no way of knowing what is going on although perhaps some announcement or communication to the membership might have been a good idea... while it's a free site to use and you're not "not getting what you pay for" people would like to know what is up with their favorite online place to hang and B.S. with their buddies. If they start feeling like its a return to 2008 with the problems they were having it's going to slow down even more as people move on to TGP, TDPRI or even smaller places like this one.
Woody_in_MN
Coptic Orthodox Deacon
I run "Advanced System Care" - a fee software that detects and cleans malware - among other things. I scan my system every 2 or 3 days - or I have have spent time at a site I don't normally visit. It is a good habit to get into.
Guitar Heel
Demented Trick
hiya Pitar
SrMeowMeow
Multimeh
just give it a good rubdown
Elias Graves
Common misfit
Who attacks a guitar site?
Vicious clarinet players?
EG
probably the same people who hack sesame street :http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/10/17/sesame-street-porn-hackers/
Elias Graves
Common misfit
:bfp:
Maybe it's terrorists? I read something a week or two ago about computer attacks.
EG
Maybe it's terrorists? I read something a week or two ago about computer attacks.
EG