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Alright, I doubt I am the only one to notice AO not being available for most of the last week. It went down temporarily on Friday, but then came back up. Then Sunday... gone. Now that it is back up, my shakes are finally dying down, but I think I might have PTSD...
So........... What happened?
From what i was told directly.
there was a server breach last Friday, the permissions on the server weren't setup to the normal security policy.
So there's been a bit auditing taking place and a few internet.com sites were offline during the process.
Wow. Thought they finally pulled the plug on AO! I was out joining new computer forums - I set-up at bleepingcomputer.com and computerforum.com. Glad to see it's back up.
Hmmm. A computer security breach on a computer security website... I'm sure there's a lesson in all this... right? :P
Well anyway, glad AO is back online. I'm surprised not more people have posted about the downtime, even if it has been back up only an hour.
They didn't breach the actual forum. ;) there is a lot of old AO content lurking around and it happened to be on the server that got breached.Quote:
Originally Posted by wiskic10_4
thus the reason why AO and a few other sites have been off-line while further auditing was done.
the most the person got access to concerning AO was a old "Staff" e-mail account "[email protected]" and other useless bit's of data.
ironically from what i've been told he left more info about himself then what he actually got from the server. ;) :george:
So AO did go down.. :P
There was some old stuff on the server from when JP owned the site, that's where the problem lay. It's all been removed now.
Ah..........I understand..........when "security superprofessionals ruled the Universe?" :chuck:Quote:
There was some old stuff on the server from when JP owned the site,
Strange that the recent threads and this, coincided is it not?
Or am I being professionally cynical as usual?:lildevil:
See you in cyberspace (not!)
I wouldn't say that. Please check your e-mail:) thanks
Hi,
Please note that my e-mail addys have changed of late...........PM if you want the latest.
No, and as a matter of fact, this is to be expected when a company deletes or edits some very entertaining and incitefull threads from users who've been here for almost a decade.Quote:
Or am I being professionally cynical as usual?
So, I guess you are sort of a big deal then? :-PQuote:
Originally Posted by The-Spec
What happen to the snitches with their snitch elite degrees? who is more valuable?
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Originally Posted by westin
I was wondering why my phone rang....:D
Hey kids!!!
::hide-behQuote:
Originally Posted by westin
Why do I get stuck at antionline.com/profile.php?do=dst when ever I type antionline.com?
Why is VBulletin trying to change the daylight savings time on my profile?
Why won't it just let me in with out changing?
Can someone just add a 301 redirect to the .htaccess file or make a new file with the line
Code:Redirect 301 /profile.php http://www.antionline.com/forums/profile.php
It's because you have selected "automatically detect DST settings" in your profile page.
It was happening to me too. I just went to the DST part, after logging in, and I re-set each value to what it was anyway, and saved it, and it stopped showing up.
in your usercp under option menu, scroll down and un-check automatically correct DST
http://www.antionline.com/profile.php?do=editoptions