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5/17 Site Attack

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ohtar

ohtar

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oh wait.... there are people making money here.... maybe i shouldnt trash this fandom site I hate just to watch them all cry and scream in the forums....

.... said no hacker ever.
 
FatalSyndrome

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Bourbon. said:
To be honest, furry's worst enemies are itself. I see more hate and vitriol from within the fandom towards each other and FA than from without. It could just as easily have been someone who's a part of the fandom who finally wanted to "shut FA down for good" that did this.
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Exactly! That's the exact kind of person I'm talking about, the furry who feels personally victimized by FA not being the best site ever and thinking it'll hurt no one if it were gone.
There's also the self hating furry, too, yeah. Never understood that kinda mentality.
 
Tailmon1

Tailmon1

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It truly makes me sad that people have such hate and go to such lengths to cause problems. This case
its going to get them Jail time if caught. I do hope they do get caught.
 
AliothFox

AliothFox

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Dracowhale said:
i hope the FBI gets involved in this.
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Eeeeehhhhh.... I certainly hope it doesn't come to that, honestly. I'd like to see the attacker caught and prosecuted, but getting the FBI involved would probably just be massive headaches all around.
 
supersonicbros23

supersonicbros23

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Execute order 66. We need missiles, spies, overcoats and spoons. I'll explain why we need the spoons later.
If available also bring an ink pen, a cigarette lighter, a hairpin, a box of tic-tacs, duct tape, and some yellow paint.
We strike at dawn, as everyone will be asleep.
Unfortunately, so will we.
 
KaiyaShadowBlaze

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True. I'm more of a person who will go far and beyond, to making the person who did this, undo it. Whether they like it or not. I would even go as far as having someone who was good with computer technology and help track the ip address of where the person had downloaded the code and get their location. THAT is how far I would go to help fix the problem.
 
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Illun

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AliothFox said:
DANG. That might be a bit harsh. I mean sure, the guy who would attack a site like FA is a total jerk, but *executed*?
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I'm up for a good old fashioned drawing and quartering. That's the traditional method for executing hackers, isn't it?

Created a login mostly to say, lay off the criticism of the FA team.

Obviously, given the nature of this sort of fandom, I'm not going to say where, but I work as the lead developer for a state government website. Underfunded, because voters on both sides think money grows on someone else's trees, but still better funded by about 2 orders of magnitude than I expect FA possibly could be, with a team maintaining the site code, a separate DBA, and a separate network team and a network security specialist who was one of the more respected experts in the field. We work with the other states, and federal, same-state and local agencies, attend training, monitor internet chatter about our site, watch the logs, have network monitoring 24/7, port sniffing, pen testing, forced regular password changes and timeouts, keep everything as up to date as is wise to do, and we still have been hacked. And we do better than some of our peers who have much bigger teams, much greater resources. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Home Depot, every single one of the Fortune 500 companies, every state and federal agency you're likely to be aware exists, have all been hacked. The current rule of thumb for security in the industry is that you've either been hacked, or you've been hacked and you don't know it yet.

Money, resources, expertise and vigilance are not enough. All you can do is try to prevent it as best you can (which they've obviously done or FA would have been down long ago), and do as much as you can to be ready for when it does happen.
 
tmdrake

tmdrake

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Funney, was just reading this hack from Defcon groups last week....I currently disabled my usage of that addon.
 
Dracowhale

Dracowhale

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AliothFox said:
Eeeeehhhhh.... I certainly hope it doesn't come to that, honestly. I'd like to see the attacker caught and prosecuted, but getting the FBI involved would probably just be massive headaches all around.
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thing is, it is the fbi who handles cyber attacks i believe.
 
b0rnstellar

b0rnstellar

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AliothFox said:
Eeeeehhhhh.... I certainly hope it doesn't come to that, honestly. I'd like to see the attacker caught and prosecuted, but getting the FBI involved would probably just be massive headaches all around.
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Most likely it would be for the worst. They'd probably have to keep the site down for a lot longer just to try and comb through it to see what happened. Too much data and too much of a hassle.
 
supersonicbros23

supersonicbros23

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KaiyaShadowBlaze said:
True. I'm more of a person who will go far and beyond, to making the person who did this, undo it. Whether they like it or not. I would even go as far as having someone who was good with computer technology and help track the ip address of where the person had downloaded the code and get their location. THAT is how far I would go to help fix the problem.
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I'd go that far anyway. Its called Liberty and Justice for ALL even on the internet
 
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DuskMarach

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Why not do a daily backup like EVE Online does daily maintenance? Do some testing on about how long an entire backup would be, then just shut down the website for the 30 minutes to an hour at most to do the backup. Not only would it be beneficial if something like this ever happens again (because things happen and backups are useful), but you would be able to figure out what day that the slip-up/breach occurred. The website would also not lose 6 days worth of data.
 
AliothFox

AliothFox

That High-Flyin' Foxy
DuskMarach said:
Why not do a daily backup like EVE Online does daily maintenance? Do some testing on about how long an entire backup would be, then just shut down the website for the 30 minutes to an hour at most to do the backup. Not only would it be beneficial if something like this ever happens again (because things happen and backups are useful), but you would be able to figure out what day that the slip-up/breach occurred. The website would also not lose 6 days worth of data.
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For about the sixth (or seventh, or eighth) time, FA does not have the resources to do daily backups. EVE has a lot more money than FA. If FA were to back up the entire site every day, it would be super slow pretty much 24/7 with the setup that they currently have, and they don't have the resources to upgrade to the level where daily backups would be practically possible.
 
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Bambous_Visu

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Bourbon. said:
That's just fearmongering. FA has gone through worse, including a three-month downtime. FA continues and will continue to be the central hub of furry art because the community is so large and people are loyal.
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Congratulations! That's the most ignorant thing in the thread!

"FA continues and will continue to be the central hub of furry art because the community is so large and people are loyal."
"because the community is so large and people are loyal."
Literally: Too Big To Fail

That's like saying : ""WoW continues and will continue to be the central hub of online gaming because the community is so large and people are loyal.""
When:
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So, Like people leaving for MOBAs and other less casual mmos.
People are leaving for Weasyl/Inkbunny/Sofurry
 
Imago

Imago

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Oh noes. >.< Well, that sucks. At least notes weren't affected. That would be bad. (Especially since I hadn't transferred information to my Trello.) But whoa!! The 11th? Wow... That is bad. Wish It wasn't like that, but what can you do? *shrugs* Hope the site comes back quickly, but be sure to be secure.
 
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