I'm sure most of you are aware by now that the EPIC MTB forum was the victim of a malicious hacker attack and the subsequent down time. I can confirm that private user data was not compromised during the attack.
We take this kind of stuff very seriously and I've taken steps to limit our exposure to further such attacks.
For those interested it was an SQL injection attack targeting a weakness in VBulliten (the software that runs our forum). I will be giving the committee a full run down about what happened in the coming days.
No real idea to be honest, had a glance through some of the notes in the hackers code and it just looked like he was acting the bollix.
We would have a fairly high traffic site there is a round of vbulliten attacks happening at the moment. Combine that with SQL insertions are quick and easy so they just had a.go for sport.
Well done for sorting it, god forbid some weirdo would find out where we're heading on our bikes!
Classic.
There will be about ?hours down time at some stage today while I run an update. I usually do these at stupid O clock but need to get this sorted asap to plug a potential security hole.
Well done Adrian and Carla. Do you have any contact details for the hackers? They could really use some good typographic guidance.
lol
They are a group called 'myanmar muslim cyber force' I did a bit of looking into them and they seam to think they are some sort of 'Anonymous' style group sticking it to the man.
After a big upgrade today I hope that is the last we see of them.
well done Arian - fair play to you! if it wasn't for you we'd all be bowing to Mecca and hollaring from our Minarets by now! thanks a bunch I'm not too fond of the ole kneeling lark!
I would say these lads are just misunderstood .... Can someone just give them a shout and invite them on a spin ...We have had enough drama this year without trying to dodge RPGs while climbing the waterbars .. Ohh yeah Thanks Adrian + Wifey ..
I'm sure most of you are aware by now that the EPIC MTB forum was the victim of a malicious hacker attack and the subsequent down time. I can confirm that private user data was not compromised during the attack.
We take this kind of stuff very seriously and I've taken steps to limit our exposure to further such attacks.
For those interested it was an SQL injection attack targeting a weakness in VBulliten (the software that runs our forum). I will be giving the committee a full run down about what happened in the coming days.
No real idea to be honest, had a glance through some of the notes in the hackers code and it just looked like he was acting the bollix.
We would have a fairly high traffic site there is a round of vbulliten attacks happening at the moment. Combine that with SQL insertions are quick and easy so they just had a.go for sport.
Well done for sorting it, god forbid some weirdo would find out where we're heading on our bikes!
Classic.
There will be about ?hours down time at some stage today while I run an update. I usually do these at stupid O clock but need to get this sorted asap to plug a potential security hole.
Well done Adrian and Carla. Do you have any contact details for the hackers? They could really use some good typographic guidance.
lol
They are a group called 'myanmar muslim cyber force' I did a bit of looking into them and they seam to think they are some sort of 'Anonymous' style group sticking it to the man.
After a big upgrade today I hope that is the last we see of them.
well done Arian - fair play to you! if it wasn't for you we'd all be bowing to Mecca and hollaring from our Minarets by now! thanks a bunch I'm not too fond of the ole kneeling lark!
I would say these lads are just misunderstood .... Can someone just give them a shout and invite them on a spin ...We have had enough drama this year without trying to dodge RPGs while climbing the waterbars .. Ohh yeah Thanks Adrian + Wifey ..
.. Ohh yeah Thanks Adrian + Wifey ..