Back up and running
May 19th, 2008, 9:47 PM
#1
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Back up and running
Everyonewho tried to access the CF or a number of other AFU forums between the evening of May 18th and the evening of May 19th know that there was a technicalerror with the forum itself. The forum underwent emergency maintenance and is now back online due to the hasty workof the AFU Tech staff. [/align]It is unclear what caused the error, but AFU is probably working hard to prevent it happening again.[/align]
May 19th, 2008, 10:34 PM
#5
RE: Back up and running
There was what looked like somesort of hack injection. An advertisement was reloading itself so quickly that I was here for about 30 seconds and it filled up around 250mb worth of internet explorer cache. I don't remember the exact name of the domain is was downloading the script from but these are getting fairly common around the net. I had to deal with something similiar at work.
To be exact I think it may be what is called an "SQL Injection". To further educate yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FxiYaflV-g
To be exact I think it may be what is called an "SQL Injection". To further educate yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FxiYaflV-g
May 20th, 2008, 7:56 AM
#7
CF Monarch
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RE: Back up and running
Thanks markofthebeast. I'll have to clear my cache. No telling how much it has slowed my computer down. I run Avant now. IE and Opera mess up too bad and I don't like Firefox. Avant has a more expanded cache than IE.
Jeremy probably hit the nail on the head with his hacker speculation
Jeremy probably hit the nail on the head with his hacker speculation
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May 20th, 2008, 8:03 AM
#8
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RE: Back up and running
Yep markofthebeast is right, it was a form of injection. I think the layman term is script injection. I knew as soon as I saw it that we would be down for a while until it got all cleaned up.
May 20th, 2008, 8:09 AM
#9
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RE: Back up and running
I consider the CF lucky to be up this quick. Many of the AFU forums are still down. Must have been an extremely malicious cyberattack against AFU.