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Paul Galactus Offline It's all about blowin' shit up. Posts: 1696 Joined: Apr 18^th, 2009	Hacking attempts Aug 23^rd, 2013 at 12:06pm	Print Post
	All The security reporting mechanism within the board software has notified me of about 30 hacking attemtps just last night. I normally see about 1-2 a day so I am hoping this is just a flurry of activity from a similar source(s) and will subside. I have it set up to auto ban IP addresses from would be intruders and also auto kick members who attempt to use scripts to bring the site down. Just keep an eye out of weird looking posts and make me aware asap. Also keep in mind that if the flurry continues, it could slow the site down periodically, but so far so good! Thanks. Paul (webmaster)

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John Galactus Offline The Master Cylinder Posts: 6693 Location: Selden Joined: Apr 11^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Hacking attempts Reply #1 - Aug 23^rd, 2013 at 4:56pm	Print Post
	Thanks for the all the work Paul.

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Paul Galactus Offline It's all about blowin' shit up. Posts: 1696 Joined: Apr 18^th, 2009	Re: Hacking attempts Reply #2 - Aug 23^rd, 2013 at 5:49pm	Print Post
	Blow me.

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Majestic Justice Leaguer Offline Guardian of Earth Posts: 5179 Location: Seattle Joined: Jun 8^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Hacking attempts Reply #3 - Aug 23^rd, 2013 at 6:23pm	Print Post
	Probably just a super villain trying to glean secrets about heroes. That or all the talk between John and Paul has drawn attention from gay porn spambots.


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Paul Galactus Offline It's all about blowin' shit up. Posts: 1696 Joined: Apr 18^th, 2009	Re: Hacking attempts Reply #4 - Aug 23^rd, 2013 at 10:08pm	Print Post
	LOL I was thinking it was the "enjoy the boobies" thread. Seems ever since that was created some time ago, the attacks have increased! Since nobody posts there anymore maybe I'll just kill it.....

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Ramble Justice Leaguer Offline I Love V&V! Posts: 525 Location: Strand Joined: Aug 8^th, 2012 Gender:	Re: Hacking attempts Reply #5 - Aug 25^th, 2013 at 1:29am	Print Post
	What? I think that thread needs to be protected and nurtured. It's so... educational. RAMBLE


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Paul Galactus Offline It's all about blowin' shit up. Posts: 1696 Joined: Apr 18^th, 2009	Re: Hacking attempts Reply #6 - Mar 24^th, 2014 at 9:06am	Print Post
	Just wanted to bump this up as last night there was a flurry of activity and this time they are new attacks. People are trying to run scripts (programs) that are brute force attacking user names and passwords. I am not really concerned about it from a username perspective, but if you know your password is relatively weak (if your account is more than a year old it might be weak) you should change it in my opinion. John this is especially true for you and I since we are administrators. If anyone gets access to our accounts it's bye bye forums.

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Imaginos Justice Leaguer Offline Overpowered Hero Posts: 552 Location: Tennessee Joined: Jun 11^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Hacking attempts Reply #7 - Mar 24^th, 2014 at 11:19am	Print Post
	You weak willed guys with weak willed passwords!


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dsumner Justice Leaguer Offline Oppresser of worlds Posts: 5284 Location: On High Joined: Apr 20^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Hacking attempts Reply #8 - Mar 25^th, 2014 at 1:57am	Print Post
	Paul wrote on Mar 24^th, 2014 at 9:06am: Just wanted to bump this up as last night there was a flurry of activity and this time they are new attacks. People are trying to run scripts (programs) that are brute force attacking user names and passwords. I am not really concerned about it from a username perspective, but if you know your password is relatively weak (if your account is more than a year old it might be weak) you should change it in my opinion. John this is especially true for you and I since we are administrators. If anyone gets access to our accounts it's bye bye forums. Any idea whey they're so interested in hacking this site?

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Paul Galactus Offline It's all about blowin' shit up. Posts: 1696 Joined: Apr 18^th, 2009	Re: Hacking attempts Reply #9 - Mar 25^th, 2014 at 8:55am	Print Post
	Honestly I think it's kids using crawlers to find keywords in sites and then if those words match they try to get access. I wasn't kidding on the boobies comment because that, among other words throughout this forum, might make crawlers believe this is a p0rn0 site, hence the attacking for "free" access begins. Others are just meniacal and just want to try their hacking toys out to bring sites down, etc. The last reason, which I see as "normal" hack attempts (i.e. bots creating ID's so they can post) are mass spammers. But I have that pretty locked down. I don't think anyone is seeing any spam posts or PM messages.

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Imaginos Justice Leaguer Offline Overpowered Hero Posts: 552 Location: Tennessee Joined: Jun 11^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Hacking attempts Reply #10 - Mar 25^th, 2014 at 1:23pm	Print Post
	Critical Fumble had a recent bout of bot attacking. The moderator commented about it in their chat thread.


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Imaginos Justice Leaguer Offline Overpowered Hero Posts: 552 Location: Tennessee Joined: Jun 11^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Hacking attempts Reply #11 - Mar 26^th, 2014 at 7:19am	Print Post
	And if the boobies thread is part of what is causing the issue, I'd say just axe it.


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