The status of things

Ralle · 07-08-2012, 12:57 PM

Hey guys
The "Contact Us" form has been down for a while, so any email sent through that has not been received. I feel so bad about this, but if you are awaiting a response, please try again.

Last Wednesday concluded a chapter in Hive history. A malicious hacker had found that we were running an older version of vBSEO and abused this hole to get access to the server and tried to take it over for a bot net. I worked 8 days to find the hole while keeping the hacker out and succeeded. It was a very stressful week. It was nothing personal though, he had a bot, that looked for that specific version of the plugin, to take over servers for his botnet.

Finally, I have been working on a fix for the � symbols all over the site and managed to write a script, that detects text containing those symbols (ISO_8859-1) and convert them to the encoding we are using now (UTF-8).
I will need to do some testing before actually applying the fix on the whole site.

Have a good summer.

Ralle

Dragonson · 07-08-2012, 01:09 PM

Well that certainly sounds like some serious sh*t. :/

No lasting damage caused, I assume?
Apart from the damage inflicted on your sleep, that is.

Ralle · 07-08-2012, 04:39 PM

No damages, no. And yes, it did ruin my sleep some nights.

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Originally Posted by eImtoR

I can now even use my symbol that no one else sees because it's on my computer.

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Wow, that's so useful!

Dragonson · 07-08-2012, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Ralle

Wow, that's so useful!

Yes, now I will never again be in that awkward situation where I have no way to express my need for blue, hollow square shapes.

Tau Empire · 07-08-2012, 11:41 PM

That must really suck working day and night figuring out the stupid hole :P, even though I don't come here often because of my own site, I do hope that this won't happen again any time soon and make sure you back up all your things.