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Re: Server security on www.Amigans.net
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1. The site was not hacked, it was subject to a DDOS attack after a dictionary attack on shell accounts failed.

2. This happens to sites all the time on the internet, but this site is hosted as a gratis favour so it isn't a high priority for us.

3. The site was brought down by me whilst I checked how far any hacks had gone, improved the security.

4. As far as I am aware no passwords were stolen, but you should reset your passwords as a matter of course regularly and never be so stupid as to use your passwords on a forum for anything important.

Whilst generic forum portal software is hard to keep secure if the administration staff do not apply regular patches - and even then - hosting custom portal software is no more likely to be secure if the target is tempting. Amigans.net is obscure and very much off the radar, therefore I do not think you need to worry unduly as most "hackers" just google for forum software version strings or typical URLs that identify the forum software and then attack that using known exploits and scripts OR they just attack a range of addresses.

Because much like the adminstrative staff of the forum software (not the same thing as the server) this service is provided voluntarily, if you want better service it would need to be paid for.

In this instance, I reiterate, it was not the forum software that was exploited (as far as I can ascertain) just a brute force attack. So the thread is pretty much moot.

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