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DD214 · Oct 24, 2011

Half-cocked said:
Was it a DNS hack or did they get into your server?

It was an .htaccess redirect. Luckily that was the only file that had been touched.

yellowsled · Oct 24, 2011

I hate computer nerds with to much time on their hands. :innocent0

CrabbyMcNab · Oct 24, 2011

Thank goodness the problem was resolved. I thought I had gotten a virus.

Thanks for the quick response.

nerd · Oct 24, 2011

Norton said:
Total down time was less than an hour and was the first in a lonnnnnnng time.

your time is a bit off. i couldn't get in between 5am and 8:30 - didn't try again until just now. glad things are back up and running, though.

Seagrave1963 · Oct 24, 2011

edleary1227 said:
All HAIL to DD214's Awesome Awesomeness !!!

+1

joppaj · Oct 24, 2011

Boss, we've got the helos up, if you'll tell us where to send them we can get this wrapped up.

zombiehunter · Oct 24, 2011

lol, they just screwed with 12000 heavily armed people...not the brightest thing I've seen. Then again in the last 3 days I've seen a patient "wash" his shorts in the bathroom sink because he dumped his urinal all over them and then "dry" them on the radiator (ended about as well as you are thinking) and then the same patient sprayed air freshener in his eyes because he thought it was visine.

llkoolkeg · Oct 24, 2011

So THAT is what the dealio was. I, also, cleared history/cache and when that didn't work, just figured somebody there forgot to pay the bandwidth bill.

Inigoes · Oct 24, 2011

joppaj said:
we've got the helos up, if you'll tell us where to send them we can get this wrapped up.

Mniutes away, when seconds count :innocent0

scrovak · Oct 24, 2011

........ what kind of dumbass hacks a forum for the self-pronounced most armed people in the area? Let alone one where people of so many highly-skilled backgrounds come together? Don, were you able get a source on the attack?

Hdgmedic · Oct 24, 2011

scrovak said:
........ what kind of dumbass hacks a forum for the self-pronounced most armed people in the area? Let alone one where people of so many highly-skilled backgrounds come together? Don, were you able get a source on the attack?

We are Anonymous.....

Norton · Oct 24, 2011

nerd said:
your time is a bit off. i couldn't get in between 5am and 8:30 - didn't try again until just now. glad things are back up and running, though.

Interesting.

I was on from 5-7-am and it was fine. Got to school at 0745 and it was down. Back online by 0830.

scrovak · Oct 24, 2011

Hdgmedic said:
We are Anonymous.....

But they usually have some sort of endgame. I've been tolerant and reasonably Anon-friendly in the past, because of some of the reasoning behind some of their attacks, but if that's true, it's war.

Half-cocked · Oct 24, 2011

The trouble with internet attacks is that it's virtually impossible to find out who's doing it - let alone prove beyond a reasonable doubt. Best you can do is keep a close eye on things, plug all known security holes, use real passwords (not "password" or your wife's birthday) and block suspect IP addresses.

nerd · Oct 24, 2011

Norton said:
Interesting.

I was on from 5-7-am and it was fine. Got to school at 0745 and it was down. Back online by 0830.

very weird. i tried in three different browsers and on two separate machines (for full troubleshooting), and i got the same issue - it appeared the DNS server went down, so i flushed a few times on both boxes to no avail. figured y'all took the site down for maintenance, then the redirect (and hacking) was apparent at about 8:26.

boricuamaximus · Oct 24, 2011

Sorry guys Sarah Brady took my newphew hostage. I had to re-route the internet tubes.

Funbrit · Oct 24, 2011

Norton said:
Interesting.

I was on from 5-7-am and it was fine. Got to school at 0745 and it was down. Back online by 0830.

I tried between 7:30-8:30am until i was forced to leave for work and it was redirecting at that time.

BlueHeeler · Oct 24, 2011

Hackers, right. :rolleyes:

DD214 just had to put another $0.50 in the meter. :thumbsup:

Tactics · Oct 24, 2011

Thanks a ton for everything you gentlemen do to keep this place up and running. Fast and good work it seems, so Thanks. I love it here.

gamer_jim · Oct 24, 2011

Looks like a Pakistani web site. Let's consider it an act of terrorism, go over there and punish them.

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