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MonsterMash
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There are problems with phpbb at the moment which may or may not be related. Alternatively it could be capacity issues with the host.
Silver Moon
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Attention SilverMoon's PBP players. If Randomlings House continues with this crawl/offline I'm planning to start threads on ENWorld's PBP forums for tonight's 7:15PM gaming session. Please post here to confirm that you've seen this announcement. Thanks
randomling
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Hiya MM - as I understand it there are problems with PHPBB.com, which is totally unrelated to us. They were hacked due to a vulnerability in a completely different software, not PHPBB, so I'm pretty sure this is a host problem, not a software problem. We'd been running the current version of the boards, 2.0.11, for a good while without problems.
Fex - I mean a page to upload pictures and link to them, rather than the ability to attach pictures.
Fex - I mean a page to upload pictures and link to them, rather than the ability to attach pictures.
Silver Moon
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From the PHPBB site:
Hi everyone,
A further update and reminder as to the situation with this site. Our system was compromised Sunday evening by a group of hackers/crackers who (based on available information apparently corroborated by said hackers/crackers) used an exploit in awstats to gain entry. I'll repeat this very clearly since some people and worse some hosting providers are not listening to what is being said. Based on said information we do not believe, nor do we have any reason to believe, that our system was compromised due to any fault in phpBB 2.0.11.
Server update, unfortunately the datacenter where our box is located have been less than helpful. The box was supposed to have been shipped Monday, it wasn't. With further pushing we were told it would definitely ship yesterday (Tuesday), it didn't. The box is now being collected "manually". Very unimpressive service quite frankly. Because of this we are now working to an altered plan which may see the site return tomorrow (Thursday 9th) or Friday (10th). Please note that we will not be able to comment on the method used to exploit our site for at least several days.
It is actually quite fustrating at present that some hosting providers are asking or forcing their customers to remove installs of phpBB 2.0.11 due to the loss of phpbb.com. As I say above, our best available information right now is that phpBB was not to blame. If a hosting provider knows different perhaps they can inform us (along with details of how they know!).
Equally it's annoying to see some people posting the same old highlighting exploit
Hi everyone,
A further update and reminder as to the situation with this site. Our system was compromised Sunday evening by a group of hackers/crackers who (based on available information apparently corroborated by said hackers/crackers) used an exploit in awstats to gain entry. I'll repeat this very clearly since some people and worse some hosting providers are not listening to what is being said. Based on said information we do not believe, nor do we have any reason to believe, that our system was compromised due to any fault in phpBB 2.0.11.
Server update, unfortunately the datacenter where our box is located have been less than helpful. The box was supposed to have been shipped Monday, it wasn't. With further pushing we were told it would definitely ship yesterday (Tuesday), it didn't. The box is now being collected "manually". Very unimpressive service quite frankly. Because of this we are now working to an altered plan which may see the site return tomorrow (Thursday 9th) or Friday (10th). Please note that we will not be able to comment on the method used to exploit our site for at least several days.
It is actually quite fustrating at present that some hosting providers are asking or forcing their customers to remove installs of phpBB 2.0.11 due to the loss of phpbb.com. As I say above, our best available information right now is that phpBB was not to blame. If a hosting provider knows different perhaps they can inform us (along with details of how they know!).
Equally it's annoying to see some people posting the same old highlighting exploit
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baradtgnome
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Silver Moon said:
....seen... Jake
Ao the Overkitty
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Silver Moon said:
And you're still running your game tonight? That is either true dedication or insanity.
Site was kind of up when I got up, but it seems to be fully down now.
randomling
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It's limping along for me... but really limping. 
Silver Moon
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No, true dedication and/or insanity was the fact that I spent most of the day working, getting a critical spreadsheet and analysis done and sent as well as four phone calls and a dozen emails between myself and my staff. On the other hand, I won't have to use a sick day for today.Ao the Overkitty said:
Looking forward to playing tonight although I'll warn my players now that it might be a 10PM ending tonight rather than midnight.
Silver Moon
Adventurer
Well, the house looks to be running fine now.
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