Downtime notice

[Martin Gühmann]

As far as I can see, it is now working as it should be without doing anything.

-Martin

[Dinner]

So what happened with the recent hack and how can we prevent it from happening again?

[Dinner]

BTW right now "respond with quotes" and "edit post" don't seem to be working. I know you guys likely have been working over time just to get the forum back up after the hack, thank you for that btw, but I thought I'd start making a list of features which seem to not be working correctly at the moment.

[Robert]

Apolyton was hacked and our data was replaced by a splash page of the 'hacking organisation'.
Because our daily backup was just being replaced by the new one, I had to put the weekly backup back in place, which caused some days of data loss.

We have also been replaced to another host at Rackspace to prevent a new hacking attempt to succeed, so fingers crossed.

Anyway, we're up again. I hope you all were able to do some useful things with the extra time Apolyton's downtime gave you

[astrologix]

Nice to hear from you, Robert

I suggest the next time a similar thing occurs, causing a downtime, you or Martin send emails to the staff members to maintain contact and to inform about. It would prevent some anxiety

[snoopy369]

Indeed (and pop on in to one of the other fora, like CFC, which have threads about most downtimes).

[Dinner]

Nice to hear from you, Robert

I suggest the next time a similar thing occurs, causing a downtime, you or Martin send emails to the staff members to maintain contact and to inform about. It would prevent some anxiety

Maybe a facebook group so people can see what is going on even if the website gets hacked or is down.

[China (DoB)]

Glad the site is backup. What may Apolyton a target? Just because or is there something more sinister?

[astrologix]

Since the downtime, it seems that one can't edit ancient posts.

It's me or something like that is general?

Thanks.
-astro

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Okay, two new ones - I'm suddenly getting this annoying pop-up at the bottom of every page informing me that "This webpage wants to run the following ad-on: 'SVG Veiwer 3.0 for Netscape' from 'Adobe Systems Inc. (unverified publisher)'.

I'm not running Netscape, and there's not button to tell the pop-up to go play in traffic, so it's there on every. single. page.


-Also, attachments don't seem to be working, so I can't show you a screenie.

[Uncle Sparky]

I'm getting a similar notice... maybe its an 'uncle' thing? I don't plan to download it, but it won't go away. Has changing hosts changed the requirements for accessing pages?

[Lorizael]

I'm not an uncle and I'm not having this problem. QED?

[Robert]

We were hacked again, I did a restore.
Working on a permanent solution.

[Krill]

Why not just delete Apolyton?

[self biased]

what the ****, plomp? Did you leave the keys in it and running While you ran in to grab a pack of smokes?