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Field of Glory Web Site Attacked
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 1:08 pm
by jdm
Just to let you know that we had a bit of an emergency on the Field of Glory web site. It was attacked by a hacker on the 5th March. Some of you may have received a virus warning message when you tried to log on.
In essence it was harmless but would obviously have given anyone visiting the site a bit of a fright. Unfortunately both Iain and I were out of the country and got woken in the wee small hours, but the team were already on the case and the site was repaired and back up and running within hours.
How and why these pratts do this stuff remains a mystery to me, but I guess the joys of the intranet age
Best Regards
JDM
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 1:41 pm
by shall
Good to see we were POA up at impact - even without JD and IRM providing a rear rank
Si
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 5:43 pm
by peterrjohnston
Perhaps they were trying to hack the competition results for the year's supply of FoG...
Seriously, if it was the forums, attacks on php BBs are quite common.
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 6:02 pm
by jdm
No it was the Field of Glory web site
We now have him logging in there at just after 5.30 GMT on the 5th March, we think we can do some more tracing
Regards
JDM
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 7:04 pm
by peterrjohnston
jdm wrote:No it was the Field of Glory web site
We now have him logging in there at just after 5.30 GMT on the 5th March, we think we can do some more tracing
Regards
JDM
Not me then, far too damn early in the day
Seriously, unless they're very stupid, fat chance of finding out who they are. And sadly these things are fairly common.
Re: Field of Glory Web Site Attacked
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 10:45 pm
by hazelbark
jdm wrote:
How and why these pratts do this stuff remains a mystery to me, but I guess the joys of the intranet age
Which punishment for the offender should me appropriate for our period.
Republican Roman
Wallachian
Islamic
or
Good old fashion Hundred Years War English.
?
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:38 pm
by Ironhand
I vote Wallachian.
Re: Field of Glory Web Site Attacked
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:35 pm
by maximvs
hazelbark wrote:jdm wrote:
How and why these pratts do this stuff remains a mystery to me, but I guess the joys of the intranet age
Which punishment for the offender should me appropriate for our period.
Republican Roman
Wallachian
Islamic
or
Good old fashion Hundred Years War English.
?
Crucifixion - it's Easter isn't it?
Re: Field of Glory Web Site Attacked
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:42 pm
by ars_belli
maximvs wrote:Crucifixion - it's Easter isn't it?
"Crucifixion's a doddle!"
Cheers,
Scott
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:20 pm
by maximvs
'They only hung me the right way up yesterday ...'