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HACKERS... again

Post by AdminJeff » Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:07 am

We got hacked last night... AGAIN. This time they took control of everything, website, forum, the works.
Thankfully, my backup system is on the mark and works like a charm now.

I caught it at 4AM today and got everything back. Last thing I want to have is a bunch users sitting down to their fresh-brewed coffee and not able to get in to their favorite Forum site.

I think I got all the posts restored up through last night. If something is missing, what you see is the best I could do.

Ok, back to sleep. Yawn.

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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by dlmyers » Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:17 am

I caught it at 4AM today and got everything back. Last thing I want to have is a bunch of cranky, crusty, old retired dudes sitting down to their fresh-brewed coffee and not able to get in to their favorite porn... errr Forum site.
I resemble that remark!

Thank you again for your efforts
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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by Tom Hicks » Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:30 am

I don't understand the hackers motives. What do they have to gain by hacking this site?
Technology, the solution to all of our problems... and the cause of most of them.

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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by Henry K. Lee » Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:32 am

Thank You Jeff!

Hank

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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by aDave » Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:33 am

4:00 A. M. ?

Boy, that is G R E A T dedication to "the cause"

Many thanks!!

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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by Ruxstel24 » Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:40 am

Frustrating, but Jeff stays on it !! Thanks !!

It started yesterday morning about 11:30, I could not get on till 2:30 or so. I figured the Gurus were on it. I was going to text you Jeff, but I forgot to put your name with the number...707 area code ?? :oops:
I was getting only this message.
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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by AdminJeff » Thu Mar 21, 2019 10:01 am

Tom Hicks wrote:
Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:30 am
I don't understand the hackers motives. What do they have to gain by hacking this site?
Its a thing. Remember the game Capture the Flag? Bragging rights to their friends.

At one point in my youth while I was a young lad studying electrical engineering at Chico State (know, an oxymoron - study and Chico State) , a sadistic instructor gave my history class a brutal assignment during "Pioneer Days" that required many DAYs of research in the library - do it or he's fail us all. This was the same year Playboy Mag voted Chico the #1 Party School. In the entire USA... So, that meant we couldn't ditch class and enjoy the week of mayhem. That afternoon I hacked Chico State's entire library system and shut it down. Like unusable shut down. And I kept it down for days. All For fun. I know - I had issues. But let me tell you I drank for free for months after that... people I didn't even know bought me drinks - thats when I acquired a taste for the finest spirits money could buy.

Things of lore, for sure.

Now do you know why hackers do what they do? They disrupt YOUR day, and cause Admins a bunch of grief. And laugh all day long. So, I have to think like they do and try and stay one step ahead of them. And I have to have a plan when they outsmart me, which, these days, is getting a little easier the older I get.

Aren't you glad I'm on your side now?

AdminJeff

And Dave, I'm all over this shi$% now.
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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by Jem » Thu Mar 21, 2019 10:28 am

The best gamekeeper is an ex-poacher.


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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by James_B_NC » Thu Mar 21, 2019 10:32 am

Wonder if it has anything to do with that porno spammer
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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by Linus Tremaine » Thu Mar 21, 2019 11:21 am

do they have access to our pass words? If so, some of us no doubt use the same log in passwords for other things. maybe we should change them.

L

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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by TonyB » Thu Mar 21, 2019 11:39 am

My thanks to Jeff and Chris for keeping our favorite site alive. 😊😊
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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by AdminJeff » Thu Mar 21, 2019 11:49 am

Linus Tremaine wrote:
Thu Mar 21, 2019 11:21 am
do they have access to our pass words? If so, some of us no doubt use the same log in passwords for other things. maybe we should change them.
No - it was hacked at the file level. Passwords are stored encrypted in the database.
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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by Sarikatime » Thu Mar 21, 2019 11:58 am

Thank you Jeff. You are right, this is my favorite and only pornsite!!!!
Frank

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Website Traffic

Post by FreighTer Jim » Thu Mar 21, 2019 2:17 pm

Henry K. Lee wrote:
Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:32 am
Thank You Jeff!

Hank
Website Traffic.

It is not a person or persons.

It is a computer program targeting websites that
appear to have robust traffic.

Traffic = Revenue.

“ Hacked “ can mean many things.

If folks registered on a public forum have personal information that is of value - it is “ harvested “.

Depending on the manner & method of encryption ....

Email addresses - passwords - personal information
can be accessed and copied.

Or - the website is held for ransom unless compensation
is paid.


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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by Will_Vanderburg » Thu Mar 21, 2019 4:14 pm

A password that contains Upper Case, Lower Case, a symbol or punctuation, and a number(s) comprising EIGHT or more placeholders would take a hacker over 700 years to guess
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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by Charlie B in N.J. » Thu Mar 21, 2019 5:15 pm

My password is 14 "items" long. Capitol, numbers, letters & 1 symbol. Good luck. As to this hacking business I've stated before I made no changes nor did I go on any new sites but just after I registered for the new Forum my junk E-mail went nuts. I'm talking 2 or 3 a week to over 25 a day. Can't figure it out as it makes no sense.
Forget everything you thought you knew.


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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by Mindless Automaton » Thu Mar 21, 2019 5:17 pm

I'm still getting a virus warning for what that's worth.


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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by Mindless Automaton » Thu Mar 21, 2019 5:30 pm

And now it's stopped.


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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by Wayne Sheldon » Thu Mar 21, 2019 6:37 pm

I discovered it was down at about 1:30 in the am. Sorry, I was unable to log out. I thought maybe you were doing more upgrades? It did make me wonder if people not logged out cause any issues? I also wonder if I keep being reported as being here if I fail to log out?
Anyway, Thanks for all you do for for us crazies!

A little side story to go along with your miscreant behavior. A long time ago, when I was in high school, the high school I went to was also the local "blind center" with special resources for the blind whether they were students there or not. As a result of this, I had several high school friends that were blind. At that time, the telephone companies were implementing automated direct dialing systems for long distance calls using a standardized audible tone system. There was also a story that made the national news when the FBI found and arrested a blind high school student that had discovered he could whistle into the phone and get long distance calls to almost anywhere by using the proper tones. At first he just made calls for fun, then for friends, then a friend figured a way to use a tape player. Soon thereafter, came the knock on the door. I met the kid, shortly after his arrest when the school systems temporarily transferred him to my high school.

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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by Quickm007 » Thu Mar 21, 2019 7:49 pm

Thank you Jeff for the all work. We appreciated the MTFCA site and the forum. My son studying at University IT security. He will finish in 3 years and he told me, he will help us to secure our site if it is necessary. We always need young gun to help us.

;)

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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by FordFool » Thu Mar 21, 2019 8:10 pm

How many forum members are getting porno emails I started getting them a couple of weeks ago. One of them was captioned complements of The model T Ford club of America. I reported it to Jeff. He said it had not affected the forum. I’m still getting them. I would really like to get a hold of one of the slime bags.

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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by GrandpaFord » Thu Mar 21, 2019 8:31 pm

Please remember to check that the prefix for the site is https:// and not http://. The one with the s is secure while the other is not. The old site was not secure (did not have the s) and your password could get stolen. Mine did and the scammer tried to extort me, saying that they knew everything on my computer, and as proof presented to me my password. It was not true of course, but he (or she) had me worried for a while.

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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by AdminJeff » Thu Mar 21, 2019 10:25 pm

wayne sheldon wrote:
Thu Mar 21, 2019 6:37 pm
A little side story to go along with your miscreant behavior. A long time ago, when I was in high school, the high school I went to was also the local "blind center" with special resources for the blind whether they were students there or not. As a result of this, I had several high school friends that were blind. At that time, the telephone companies were implementing automated direct dialing systems for long distance calls using a standardized audible tone system. There was also a story that made the national news when the FBI found and arrested a blind high school student that had discovered he could whistle into the phone and get long distance calls to almost anywhere by using the proper tones. At first he just made calls for fun, then for friends, then a friend figured a way to use a tape player. Soon thereafter, came the knock on the door. I met the kid, shortly after his arrest when the school systems temporarily transferred him to my high school.
Bummer -he got caught... I was lucky I guess!
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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by DHort » Thu Mar 21, 2019 11:56 pm

Two people I know very well went down in the steam tunnels of the university early one morning and turned off the water supply to a large girls dormitory. No showers and no cafeteria for hours. Would that be considered a hack of the water supply?


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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by Burger in Spokane » Fri Mar 22, 2019 12:45 am

My friends and I were annoyed by a neighbor's dog that barked a lot, so we stayed up
all night and made noises to keep the dog barking non-stop. The owner would come out
and yell at the dog, go back to bed, and we'd make the noises again, the dog would bark,
and the owner would come back out. We made a lot of people pretty angry with that
dog and his owner. Not sure what the owner did with that dog, but it never was much of
a barker after that night. Dog training classes ?

Animal alert systems hacking the old school way !
More people are doing it today than ever before !

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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by Ruxstel24 » Fri Mar 22, 2019 4:44 am

DHort wrote:
Thu Mar 21, 2019 11:56 pm
Two people I know very well went down in the steam tunnels of the university early one morning and turned off the water supply to a large girls dormitory. No showers and no cafeteria for hours. Would that be considered a hack of the water supply?
I wouldn't want to be around after no food or showers, for a dormitory of large girls... :? :lol:


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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by Burger in Spokane » Fri Mar 22, 2019 10:30 am

Today they call that "Plus Size".
More people are doing it today than ever before !


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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by Mindless Automaton » Sat Mar 23, 2019 5:50 pm

Is this normal?
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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by AdminJeff » Sat Mar 23, 2019 10:39 pm

No it’s not. It’s a msg generated by your system. It could be a vestige if our earlier problem. Let me know if it keeps happening

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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by Marv K » Sun Mar 24, 2019 12:38 am

-Jeff-
If that scrolling message line isn't normal, just to let you know, it is showing up here too. I haven't tried opening any of it.
"Let's Figgur it owt!" Just fix it (right), and make it work.....
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Re: HACKERS... again

Post by AdminJeff » Sun Mar 24, 2019 10:18 am

Marv K wrote:
Sun Mar 24, 2019 12:38 am
-Jeff-
If that scrolling message line isn't normal, just to let you know, it is showing up here too. I haven't tried opening any of it.
The news scroll is a new forum feature. It scrolls on all forums for a day and then only on the board index page after that.
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