+dapettit Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Beware. The MAAST website has been hacked. When clicking on a link it takes you to another website! Dave- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmanning Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 That's scary......I got on it too and it freak me out. Hope there able to fix any problems that might occurred. On another note......how are the T5's working out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
princer7 Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Just checked and it said the site was down so it could be fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GKarshens Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 I got a weird email from the site too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeperKeeper Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 I just went there for the first time in a very long time and got the message that the server was down or something. I wondered if they had just changed web addresses since it had been so long since I'd used my bookmark. I came here to see if there was any word about what happened. I thought I might find a post a few months old about MAAST moving, but I didn't expect to see the post about it in the Emergency forum. I was looking in announcements and general discussions, etc. Found this when I clicked on recent posts. Well, hopefully they'll get it up and going again soon. Meanwhile, I like ARC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beefytang Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Script kiddies exploiting Vbulletin. This kid says he did it to inform the maast admin that his site was insecure. Which is bull. If he was so concerned about his security he should have sent an email to the maast admin and not deface the site. Technically, it's not really a hack, more like vandalism. Hopefully the punk didn't use a proxy. =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dapettit Posted July 21, 2008 Author Share Posted July 21, 2008 Ok so not hacked. I made the post because I know a lot of ARC members are also MAAST members. It appears the sit is up. Geez what people will do when they are board. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beefytang Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 Ok so not hacked.I made the post because I know a lot of ARC members are also MAAST members. It appears the sit is up. Geez what people will do when they are board. . . LOL semantics. Sorry. Exploited, hacked, defaced. All relative terms, I suppose. You're right. I try to avoid complimenting an attacker by not calling such an act a "hack". When you reduce their acts to terms like "vandalism" there's a 50/50 chance it might shame them a little. Events like this, as unfortunate as they are, often inspire other admins in the community to harden their servers and applications so it's tougher for some punk to mess things up. Luckily, the attacker didn't appear to mess with the data, although I read reports of the VB app sending emails out to members. All I know is that around 4am I was trying to read an article on their site then next thing I know, the browser window is doing a circular dance onscreen and then animated some lame message. Thought I was trippin' for a second until I realized what was going on. If you ever spot anything suspicious here at ARC, contact Andrew ASAP. =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dapettit Posted July 22, 2008 Author Share Posted July 22, 2008 Beefytang, I whole heatly agree with you. Why can't this punk put his talents to better use! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headless_donkey Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 I got an email from the hacked maast site. Hopefully, the security holes have been addressed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robb in Austin Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 Looks like MAAST is down, I wonder if they got hit again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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