problem with core decision web site

De Rigueur · Post by **De Rigueur** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 8:18 am

Anyone else having this problem?
Says something about 'Infektion Group', etc.

Aus-RED-5 · Post by **Aus-RED-5** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 8:21 am

Yep.. Looks like someone hacked the site.
DOH!

Unix · Post by **Unix** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 9:17 am

How gay.

WarAdvocat · Post by **WarAdvocat** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:05 am

we'll see how professional they are (or at least how professional they wish to appear) by how long it takes to get the site back up won't we.

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:19 am

****ing hackers. People like that should just be shot.

zbriggs · Post by **zbriggs** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 12:08 pm

Dear Core Decision Patrons,
As many of you know the Core Decision Portal was hacked. This was actually not an isolate incident. This is a server wide outage. They gained entry into the main server cluster and use a trojan virus that overwrote the index.htm, index.html, and index.php files in every directory of the servers.

At present we are restoring the damaged files from last night's backup and are working to get the system operational once again. The server logs are being turned over to the authorities, including the Department of Homeland Security.

Because your user information was stored in an encrypted database no user information was compromised to the best of our knowledge.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

Sincerely,
Zachary Briggs, Executive Producer
HighOcane Software
(866)328-1886

De Rigueur · Post by **De Rigueur** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 12:57 pm

Sorry it happened.

Hope they didn't steal the source code . . . lot of that going around lately.

zbriggs · Post by **zbriggs** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 1:29 pm

LOL. We aren't that stupid.

Zach

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 1:48 pm

Perhaps this is relevant:

"Popular fantasy role-playing game, Final Fantasy XI, run by Square Enix, has been disrupted since 9 April by a distributed denial of service attack.

Bogus net traffic from hundreds of remotely controlled computers has bombarded the game's network.

NewScientist.com reports it could lead to further attacks by net extortionists on similar lucrative game communities. Betting sites were targeted last year."

zbriggs · Post by **zbriggs** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 1:50 pm

This was hacked by a group of brazillians that posted Anti-Bush propiganda. They breached about 100 of the servers.

Zach

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 2:19 pm

Damn, why have all the hackers moved to Brazil anyway?

zbriggs · Post by **zbriggs** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 2:26 pm

Because Brazil doesn't extradite and they do not pursue hackers.

zbriggs · Post by **zbriggs** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 2:30 pm

Master Name Servers are back up.

Web Servers are back up.

Email Servers are back up.

Database servers are on their way.

Zach

zbriggs · Post by **zbriggs** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:20 pm

I amend my last post. Apparently the backup was corrupted. Moving to another backup.

Zach

De Rigueur · Post by **De Rigueur** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:50 pm

Maybe you could modify the game's plot.
Instead of blowing up reactors, why not blow up hackers' lairs.

zbriggs · Post by **zbriggs** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 4:13 pm

We feel your pain.

Most of the stuff is back up.

Working on the forums.

Zach

zbriggs · Post by **zbriggs** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 4:22 pm

Everything should be back up and running. Let us know if you find anything we missed. The links should be sent to WebDev@HighOctaneSoftware.com.

Thank You,
Zachary Briggs, Executive Producer
HighOctane Software
(866)328-1886

zbriggs · Post by **zbriggs** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 6:03 pm

We would like to take this moment to do some upgrades. Give us just a few.

Thank You,
Zachary Briggs, Executive Producer
HighOctane Software
(866)328-1886

zbriggs · Post by **zbriggs** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 8:10 am

All done. Everything should be back up with minimal loss and everyone should find the upgrades to be satisfactory.

Feel free to let us know of any problems.

Thank You,
Zachary Briggs, Executive Producer
HighOctane Software
(886)328-1886

KompresZor · Post by **KompresZor** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:45 am

Works good for me, even my cookie

Nice job!