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5/17 Site Attack

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RapidStrike

RapidStrike

well then okay
I'm curious as to what the exploit was that allowed the attackers to access the database in the first place.

I seriously hope that it wasn't something simple like SQL injection.
 
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Fordoxia

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tbonethebunbun said:
I did, for two reasons...

1: I'm an avid user of FA, so I can keep up with my favorite artists, and a few select friends.

2: I'm the same guy who, 5 years ago on Youtube, told everyone who was whining, crying, moaning, and complaining about this exact same thing to "GET OVER IT!" Yeah, I am the "OFFICIAL" tbone2004 in case you were wondering. Of course, I didn't create that to be a total jerk, I did it just to provide a sense of comfort in these dark times. After all, it's just a character I play, just like with my fursona when I fursuit at cons.

But in all seriousness, guys... FA IS GONE AND WILL NOT BE COMING BACK FOR A WHILE, SO GO DO SOMETHING ELSE! YOU DO KNOW DOOM JUST CAME OUT, RIGHT???
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I saw Polygon play it. Well, I say I saw it; I got through about 3 minutes of their terrible inability to move and aim at the same time. Or hit the daemons. Man, Polygon sucks.
 
Iracuse

Iracuse

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tbonethebunbun said:
I did, for two reasons...

1: I'm an avid user of FA, so I can keep up with my favorite artists, and a few select friends.

2: I'm the same guy who, 5 years ago on Youtube, told everyone who was whining, crying, moaning, and complaining about this exact same thing to "GET OVER IT!" Yeah, I am the "OFFICIAL" tbone2004 in case you were wondering. Of course, I didn't create that to be a total jerk, I did it just to provide a sense of comfort in these dark times. After all, it's just a character I play, just like with my fursona when I fursuit at cons.

But in all seriousness, guys... FA IS GONE AND WILL NOT BE COMING BACK FOR A WHILE, SO GO DO SOMETHING ELSE! YOU DO KNOW DOOM JUST CAME OUT, RIGHT???
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My PC can't run Doom, soooo.... Guess I'm going to reinstall Skyrim again.

We still have the forums, at the very least, so we can continue... community-ing or whatever it is we do. I'm just here for the commissions.
 
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coolclaws7

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Orca1 said:
Shouldn't this issue be brought to the FBI? I may be mistaken, but this could be considered an act of cyber-terrorism, or at least within the purview of their cyber crimes unit.
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I agree man, they need to make sure this ins't part of something larger
 
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tbonethebunbun

Active Member
Iracuse said:
My PC can't run Doom, soooo.... Guess I'm going to reinstall Skyrim again.

We still have the forums, at the very least, so we can continue... community-ing or whatever it is we do. I'm just here for the commissions.
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Do you play Elder Scrolls Online? OH MY GOD, THAT GAME IS AWESOME! =3
 
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Fordoxia

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RapidStrike said:
I'm curious as to what the exploit was that allowed the attackers to access the database in the first place.

I seriously hope that it wasn't something simple like SQL injection.
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It was an ImageMagick library exploit that was patched on the 5th. However, by this time, the source code had been released. And when you have that stuff, there's no end to to havoc you can bring.
 
Samandriel Morningstar

Samandriel Morningstar

The Morningstar
I know all of this sucks and it's going to put a dent in all of our profiles and force us to bring back what content/watchers etc. we had but please anyone who is going after the Mods/Neer just calm down.
Also the people who are freaking out in general.
These kinds of things happen to even the best websites,hackers these days do whatever they can to evolve and there's only so much Neer and the others can do,the fact the stuff on the USB's were leaked didn't help.
It was obviously planned,haphazardly but still planned.
There's always that good collection of folk out there just waiting to do something to destroy the furry community in one way or another,or just generally be dicks.
Things will be taken care of,the site will be back and we'll all be able to get back to our regularly scheduled furaffinity sessions with hopefully little issue besides the task of getting watchers back and taking care of any other lost information/submissions.
The people who run the site are just that,people.
They're not sitting in their basement lurking here just waiting for something to happen and then string it out to cause drama.
Some things need to be fixed that haven't been fixed for a while,and hopefully things will be upgraded to a heavier level of security.
It's all going to be fine.
 
Lunarmagic

Lunarmagic

Information Tech. Helping the general public
Bourbon. said:
I agree, I'm pretty sure this is very much illegal and needs to be reported to the proper authorities.
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The thing is, the hacker may have already deleted his trail. It would be very difficult to find him at this rate.
 
Kendareru

Kendareru

ISFPlatypus
Lunarmagic said:
Thank you for remaining positive, and (based on what they said) It should not take more than a couple of days. A full restore is a bit of a hefty tole.
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My faith comes from the fact that I've been on the site since high school, nearly half my life ago, and any time it goes down, it bounces right back, sometimes better, sometimes not.
 
Iracuse

Iracuse

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tbonethebunbun said:
Do you play Elder Scrolls Online? OH MY GOD, THAT GAME IS AWESOME! =3
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I live in Bumfuck, Nowhere (AKA the United States' equivalent to Siberia, AKA Alaska), so... I don't really play a lot of MMOs. I've heard mixed things about it.
 
FelisRandomis

FelisRandomis

Weilder of StopSigns
HalouDoval said:
Can't wait to sit down and spend my time figuring out what I've been doing between the 11th and 17th of May, when, or if, this issue gets resolved.
It's gonna be great....
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Do you post anywhere besides FA? You can use that for the history of your posts
 
Rythas

Rythas

Squeaky Angel Durgon
Iracuse said:
I live in Bumfuck, Nowhere (AKA the United States' equivalent to Siberia, AKA Alaska), so... I don't really play a lot of MMOs. I've heard mixed things about it.
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I played in the early closed Beta.. Took like 6 hours to download on my crapola laptop, and it was very, very bugged, hee hee. The first quest that required players to work as a group didn't work. Haven't tried it since then, but it sounds like it's improved
 
Zepher_Tensho

Zepher_Tensho

Lodestar
Dragoneer said:
We have RAID 10s in all our servers. Full database and storage backups are held on other servers, so it's not quite the same as a single drive going offline and needing to replace the backup. And yes, doing daily backups is something we want to do, but with a site the size of FA, it can cause some severe slowdowns doing them constantly. We're in the process of acquiring a new backup storage system which would allow us to do said backups (but also requires a network upgrade).
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A good practice is doing full backups weekly (which it sounds like you are), and then differential backups daily. These types of backups only save what has changed since the last backup, making it faster and having less processing overhead
 
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