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Wildcard, or any other admin. If you do not patch the board fully to the newest version, at least follow the steps in this thread: http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=240513
Its very short (only one thing to replce), and closes the security hole that seems to be the course of phpBB sites going down.
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Was it just his main page that was defaced, or was his whole website raped or something?
Jumping Jahoolipers!
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Looks like they also got the forum main page.
http://petesqbsite.com/forum
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To all of you:
I got some good news for you all on the first four issues of QB Express, so here it comes: I have just discovered on this very afternoon that as I was searching today on Google under "QB Express" deeply, all the issues that were released so far were showing, and (get this!), upon me clicking on the cached version of them, they all actually showed up in their original form (despite Googleâs own cache labeling), pics showing and all. Whatâs more, the original downloads â including the ones from Relâs 3D tutes as well â ALL FULLY WORK, too!!! Just found that out for myself to pass along to you. =b !
You can get to the cached versions of QB Express using these links:
Iâd do ANYTHING like that to help you all out, just âcause I love you and I mean it. :king: !
See you later. :bounce:
- Adigun Azikiwe Polack
One of the Founders of â Aura Flowâ
Continuing Developer of â Frantic Journeyâ
Current Developer of â Star Angelic Sluggerâ
Webmaster of the â AAP Official Projects Squadâ
UPDATE (from today at 1:08pm EST) Upon my later discoveries just now on Google on the all of the downloads from Peteâs QuickBASIC/QBasic Site, you can access the cache versions of the program download pages beginning with these following search results right here. From there, click â Cachedâ on one of them. There, you will then find possible access to the downloads that have ever been presented there since that site reopened from during 2004. Click on the download links and you are *in*, as they are intact and STILL work!! !
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It's sad that humanity has come to the point where there are people in the world that actually would get kicks from something like that.
I know it's not a reflection of us as a whole, but people like this stick out like a sore thumb.
As a guy who has had his share of hacked sites, I offer you my condolences.
I don't remember the sitename, but there is a website that archives websites for cached viewing. I think it also archives the files. I don't know where it is, but google should reveal it.
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To Aetherfox:
Quote:It's sad that humanity has come to the point where there are people in the world that actually would get kicks from something like that.
I know it's not a reflection of us as a whole, but people like this stick out like a sore thumb.
Most agreed, man. Most agreed. I mean, with such terrible scrooges like that, itâs like âYou might as well NEVER even visit the site in the first place at all!! :-? ! â for them, you know that? Given that, I say â BAH!! Humbug!!!â to those pathetically stupid hacking acts myself, as I too have had *nearly* my share of that trash on one of my forumboards before I immediately took it completely down (Thank God!! ! ).
Pardon me, my two cents here (for such a fitting time as the Christmas season, currently).
As for another website that archives other websites, Aetherfox, I do know clearly of a site like that called the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, found within either http://www.webarchive.org or http://web.archive.org. Sure the site suffers some downtime here and there every once in a while, but trust me man, it works like it should be in the long run! ^_^ That is as far as I remember on that. Hope this helps!
(Additionally, if you type up the word â webarchiveâ on the Google search-engine bar, you will find the words â Internet Archive: Wayback Machineâ on the top of its search results, because yes, Google does have it! ! )
Talk to you later, and thank you much now.
- Adigun Azikiwe Polack
One of the Founders of â Aura Flowâ
Continuing Developer of â Frantic Journeyâ
Current Developer of â Star Angelic Sluggerâ
Webmaster of the â AAP Official Projects Squadâ
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All right, I'm pissed. Whoever the stupid son of a bitch is that did this better hope I don't find out who they are, because if I do, I'm going to prosecute them to the full extent of the law.
Although I don't know who did it, I have some suspicions. This attack came just a few days after Mark Hall posted a message on my forum warning me to upgrade my version of PHPBB because of the security exploit in version 2.06. I took this message seriously, but it came at a very busy time (finals), so I decided to put off upgrading for a few weeks. Unfortunately, I assume that this posting actually inspired some asshole to go out and figure out how to hack my site -- it's not very hard at all. (I searched "PHPBB exploit" in Google and came up with instructions on how to hack into someone's server within the first ten results.) Anyway, in the past few weeks, there have been a bunch of Nazi types posting on my forum... "Skinhead", some guy with "SS" in his name, someone that always posted "Oi!" at the beginning of every message... I'm not sure if he/they (might be the same person) had anything to do with it, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if it turned out to be him/them. (They just seem to be the right demographic of lamers that would destroy a site for fun.) Otherwise, it could have been anyone that visited the board. At any rate, I'm betting that it's probably not some random person that had never been to my site before. If anyone knows what I can do to track down this person, let me know.
As far as the damage goes, luckily it's looking like I'll be able to recover most of the old content from my backup. The worm program that hacked my server went through every directory and replaced all .html, .htm, .shtml, .xml and .php files with the "This site has been defaced" HTML page. It's a 270 byte file.
Luckily, the worm didn't delete any other files/directories or mess with anything but the html and php files on the server. That means that all .txt, .zip, images and anything else are still intact. Had the .zip, .cgi and .txt files been messed with, I would have lost quite a bit of irreplaceable content that I didn't have backed up -- everything that people have submitted since August, as well as all the old news archives. Thankfully, that stuff wasn't touched.
What I'm most worried about right now are the archives of the forum. Hopefully I haven't lost anything from that database. I'll look into that soon.
Thanks to everyone who posted support since this happened. I'm kind of reluctant to restore my site after this. I put hundreds of hours of work into that site and then some asshole motherfucker goes and destroys it for some kind of sick pleasure. For now, I'm going to try to replace the site...but if this ever happens again, that will be the end of both QB Express and Pete's QB Site. I have better things to do than deal with this bullshit. What a fucking pain in the ass.
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You might check and see if your hosting company keeps backups...many keep daily backups and can restore your whole site for a small fee (~$10).
As for finding out who did it...check your log files. If it was just a script kiddie, chances are they didn't use a proxy.
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Quote:For now, I'm going to try to replace the site...but if this ever happens again, that will be the end of both QB Express and Pete's QB Site.
I can imagine that... but... don't let a hacker destroy this part of the qb community!
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that's just... so lame. can't understand the people(if you can call them that). Pete if there's anything I can do, please let me know.
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