[parallax]

Well, we're back, with all our threads!

All thanks to Jorge (our hosting guy) for everything he's done (backups are a Good Thing). He's helped us more than once, and has been /great/ support during this whole transition.

EDIT: Should be all set now!

[ 10-14-2001: Message edited by: parallax ]

[parallax]

Test

[mindwaves]

Nice to see the forums back once again. We need some more security features...

[Cipher13]

Now to find the bastards that did this and hang them by their tongues.

[l'ignorante]

Did I miss something ( a couple of threads, for sure), what happened?

[TheJoshu]

Ah... stupid virtual anthrax.

[dark3lf]

Woh, check out the stars in here, everyone is leet! Hehe Glad to see that the board is back up to fighting strength though. They've fscked with the wrong ppl though, Mac users know how to kick ass. We should put together an elite task force, go over there and do a little damage of our own.

[ 10-14-2001: Message edited by: dark3lf ]

[philzilla]

i particularly like the way the the 403 error i got, when trying to access the board while it was awol, included another error, saying it couldn't find the 404 page. laugh? i nearly shat!

[gorgonzola]

Originally posted by philzilla:
<STRONG>i particularly like the way the the 403 error i got, when trying to access the board while it was awol, included another error, saying it couldn't find the 404 page. laugh? i nearly shat! </STRONG>

403 was because we chmoded everything to 000 to make sure no further hacking would take place while we were working.

404 is just messed up.

[Matsu]

Any chance of getting back that last day of posts/threads??? Lots of stuff missing.

[uochris]

Do you know how they did it or is this type of thing likely to happen again? Was it a misconfiguration of the new server or did it have to to with some exploit of the UBB system?

[robotmarkVIII]

Originally posted by uochris:
<STRONG>Do you know how they did it or is this type of thing likely to happen again? Was it a misconfiguration of the new server or did it have to to with some exploit of the UBB system?</STRONG>

It was because the news site Slashdot made a direct link to the macnn forums for an OS X story. Since there is such a huge base of very compulsive readers who read the linked pages, often they "slashdot" the pages with a huge number of requests.

Were weren't "attacked"

[Cipher13]

Originally posted by robotmarkVIII:
<STRONG>

It was because the news site Slashdot made a direct link to the macnn forums for an OS X story. Since there is such a huge base of very compulsive readers who read the linked pages, often they "slashdot" the pages with a huge number of requests.

Were weren't "attacked"</STRONG>

Yeah, we were.
It may have been /.'ers, but we were attacked.

[nealconner]

I thought you guys were going to switch to vBulletin.

[IUJHJSDHE]

The way I see it is...

Macnn Was hacked into by more then on hacker who did very well at covering there tracks.


They got in using a security hole in the bb possebly something to do with the e-mailing of passwords.

And that this will probebley not happen agian in this same for!

Am I right ?

[seanyepez]

I have a feeling it isn't someone from Afghaniistan, but someone like Kosmo playing a prank on MacNN.