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[Data]

they try to hack any site actually.
I see it almost any site I have control of.

[Bobbin Threadbare]

Hmm... I didn't seem to notice any of this happening. Maybe it happened while I was at school.

[Danny252]

Ditto on Bobbin. Its all good for me.

[Doubler]

Originally posted by Danny252 in this topic@May 2 2006, 07:41 PM
Oh, thats why its lagging.

Well, it is now. Apparently not before :P

[The Fifth Horseman]

they try to hack any site actually.
I see it almost any site I have control of.

Hacking by itself isn't bad... hacking to vandalise is, though.

[wormpaul]

Nah,

Any kind of hacking isnt really cool....


Sometimes they hack the big sites to make politician statements but that is more silly then really useful..

When they hack abandonia we will probally all see the text:

Dowloading is illegal, give power back to the people who made the game and you guys are a shame for the world of real gamers....




Or something silly like that :blink:

[The Fifth Horseman]

I mean, some time back the hackers used to just leave a small notice that they succeeded in hacking the site and did not vandalize the existing content.
At least that's what I'm told to believe.
So, if one such hacked Abandonia, we'd probably see another news post like

Abandonia hacked!
by RiPz0R

And none of the actual site content vandalized.

[plix]

Originally posted by the_fifth_horseman@May 4 2006, 09:51 AM
I mean, some time back the hackers used to just leave a small notice that they succeeded in hacking the site and did not vandalize the existing content.
...
And none of the actual site content vandalized.

Maybe so, but most of these attacks are automated and the vandal's "note" is usually accomplished by vandalizing preexisting content. It's a real pain in the behind to have to go back through backups for all the vhosts on a machine and replace the index.* files from backups. I've been seeing a lot of attacks recently on some of my machines attempting to brute-force default Red Hat accounts (admin, etc) via SSH and while it isn't really a terribly serious issue (any sort of direct root login -- remote or local -- is prevented), it is a pain having to deal with such a tremendously large number of failed attempts. There are a few nice tools now, though, which will automatically block zombies being used for these purposes.

[Eagle of Fire]

Strangely, the only difference I noticed since we got "dugg" is the bots attacks...

Is it worth it to have so much coverage if the only "advantage" is disavantages?

[Tulac]

Well bot attacks happened before we got dugg, on AR (which didn't even get Dugg anyway) so I doubt those two were related...