Diasfora
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: bubu on December 02, 2012, 02:16:01 AM
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After few days of black out he could restore the site, it is still unstable but working :D
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From here we only get the blue page with the announcement that he'd been hacked and took the site down -- nothing has changed.
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I can never remember how to spell his site. Funny enough, he's got an account on a gimp forum. hahah.
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I can never remember how to spell his site.
That's exactly what I was trying to do for half an hour after reading this thread.
I failed.
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I get the blue page (http://www.technogrammaton.org.uk/forum/) too.
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I can host his site no probs. I offered that to him a while back as he was so generous in offering me a bottle of his special brew.
I'll mail him and if he still wants the site up, I'll copy it over and host it myself.
Let's hope he has a database backup...
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That would be great. Several of us have e-mailed him with no response, so I suspect he's having computer connection problems as well as this recent hack. When it rains it pours, I guess. Sure hope he'll pop in here when he can.
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Till yesterday the site worked at least for me and christ, I wrote there you could not see the site, today an smf site pop up instead, may be he is working on it ?
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I get the blue page (http://www.technogrammaton.org.uk/forum/) too.
If the above link is aelthric's site, I am able to get to it and actually register an account.
Ah, reading the Announcements thread, it seems this is newly installed fora. Seems the attack was very malicious in nature so no data was able to be saved. But he is back up.
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Are you sure is his site? It has no names only yours now, and an administrator
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I was able to re register. It's his site, he's made announcement signed with his name. The board is bare, though, so we'll have to reconstruct the original threads, if we can remember them.
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I registered there and it seems to be working fine. I wonder though what version he was using before that attack? I have a feeling it was the "1*" series which would make converting the database tricky, and is possibly why he's started afresh (this version does have improved security, supposedly).
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yeah, he said about that on that other site smokester
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yeah, he said about that on that other site smokester
It is possible to convert from the 1* series to the 2* versions, but takes a few steps and a bit of hand editing. I don't know how many threads/posts he had but it may be worth setting up a subdomain to get the original database working. If it ended up too buggy then he could just abandon it.
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After few days of black out he could restore the site, it is still unstable but working :D
Sounds like the story of my life. ;D
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Sounds like the story of my life. ;D
Amen my brother.
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^ ;D
I'm a good boy now...
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glad you have it running or soon will be. :D
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Hi everybody, I am sorry that I have been absent AGAIN, it wasn't just Technogrammaton that was Hacked but every single site hosted on a new shared server, because the sites had only just been moved onto the new HACKED server I was told that there were NO backups by the hosts...
Of course the hosts insisted to me that it was only TG that got hacked until, courtesy of a friend, I was able to give them a URL with a whole list of the sites that were hacked on their servers, their next comment was "Well nobody else has complained" which is surprising since so many of those sites, that were listed, were in a state of fresh install and devoid of content dating to prior the hack attack when I went to visit them...
And this was not a silly prank Hack either, this hack injected code directly into each sites home directory on the server which replaced files with garbage that it was very hard to remove...
I do apologise to all my friends that lost their logins and their posts but I had to do a complete site reinstall including installing a fresh install of SMF (Upgraded from the 1.1.17 or whatever it was, to the latest 2.x.x...
I still owe Smokes his bottle of Rum too ;D
I've argued before to the host that the vulnerability wasn't my end but theirs, and they still argued blindly that it was my set up that was at fault. At the time I was hosting about 7 sites that were all hacked so they would have had to get in via my master domain that didn't even have a site installed, so hacking that would be miraculous.
Conferring with dweez he'd suggested that I may have a text file on my comp with all my logins and it was my computer that had been hacked and these sensitive details acquired. I did have a text file it was true, so I gave them the benefit of the doubt and stopped arguing.
I never found any sign of a virus or trojan on the comp in question (this one I am using at present), and back then it was sandboxed 99% of the time - I just plugged a wifi dongle in occasionally to update software.
I have been guilty of being lazy with security since, so any moral high ground I may have had is now below sea level.
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But where is aelthric? :'(