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Posted by BigKev On 2021/1/5 15:52:49

I'm sure some of you noticed the website was offline here and there for the last few days.

My web host automatically suspended the server as they got a notification from another provider that my server's IP was launching a Brute Force attack against some of the servers on their farm.

Both me and my provider have monitored and scoured the website looking for anything malicious and nothing has been found. Also they have been monitoring the outbound traffic from the website and nothing suspicious has been detected. So more than likely this was a spoofed attack. Basically a server somewhere imitating the website's IP to hide behind.

Long story short the website is back up and because of the nature of the data and what we use the website for there is no danger to any of the users here, as we are not storing any sensitive personal info and even your passwords are stored as hashes in the vent the website was actually compromised.

But in light of all that, I have decided to migrate the website to a new server stack. The existing server OS is getting ancient by today's standards and the website needs to be put behind an OS layer that is more hardened against future threats. So over the next week, I will be doing that migration. So if you see the website down or see a notice that it is down, it is because of that migration. I'll give you more info through the process. But everything we have here (Articles, Pictures, Forums, Userinfo) will migrate. So you shouldn't have to do anything from a user perspective.

Thanks everyone!