Anyone know why http://www.sega-16.com/ is showing as site suspended? I love this site at the minute. Was just reading some articles and then boom...gone. First time in about 2 years I've known it to be down.
Suspended? I know, great little site. It was down last night. Its now saying account suspended!! Hope its just a server error of something.
Yeah it's still down. A recovery wouldn't take this long. Unless of course the hacker created bad relations between the site and the web host and it's taking them a while to rehost.
This is why you should keep a back up of uour site. I have my complete site backed up of 2 different hard drives and a mirror server whuch are always updated the same time as the main site. That way if it ever goes down i just open uo the FTP and upload the entire site again. Quick and easy :thumbsup:
Backups and keep EVERYTHING patched as the patches come out. I've seen plenty of forums get wiped from their hosting because of some exploit that has been patched for several months. The average idiot who wipes forums aren't people with 0day exploits or copious amounts of cracking skills, they're some pissed off wanker who is likely between the ages of 12-16 (or acts like it) and found a pre-packaged "proof of concept" exploit that the admins failed to patch for one reason or another. Same goes for your Windows machines. I've seen networks taken down by worms that Microsoft had patched months prior simply because the network admin didn't bother to figure out how to command the machines to patch regularly.
Its back up now. I had to re-register. lost all my posts. its ok though. nothing of value went missing.
Yes it was random hackers, it was mentioned over at digitpress:- http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1809695#post1809695 http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1809714#post1809714 The Sega-16 site owner(?)/administrator 'Melf' also posted:- http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1808898#post1808898 Another post mentioned that two months worth of posts would be lost:- http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1809141#post1809141 and the reason why:- http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1809579#post1809579
Down again. Hacked to make it look like the site was responsible for a phishing attempt. The servers owners have taken it down for fear of the whole server being compromised.
