GSC has been hacked
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Scotty on 2010 January 08, 13:45:35
And Pes, the only mods I have on my forum are official add ons from Invision. I update the software as much as I can. Or, as much as Invision updates their software.
Being official doesn't meant it ain't crap. And ultimately, shit happens. If a new breaking exploit just emerged, they may not have officially resolved it yet, so expect a wave of attacks on boards running that software. I wouldn't really call this a deep and particularly meaningful event. This is just typical Internet shit, you get used to this.
Scotty:
I'm used to it. I'm sure it's just some random moron that thought he could put one over on some random site. I got called a Pirate Fag, so that's a bonus. :)
J. M. Pescado:
...oh, a PIRATE fag now? See, that's a new wrinkle. Tell me more about this. I revise my previous opinion. I no longer believe this to be entirely random, and now suspect TSR involvement.
Scotty:
Well, they deleted almost everything, all the posts, members and renamed the forum to the Gay Pirate Fag Club. I made a fake name and went in there to see what was going on, and someone that was signed in as me PMed me and called me a Gay Pirate Fag. And that's all he said. One of my members said it's probably TSR.
J. M. Pescado:
I concur with this assessment. The MO of the attack implies that it was performed by someone of low technical skills, but possessing privileged information obtained by some means, and a directed motive. A random attack would not have specifically attacked on a member-and-post-level, but instead, would have simply just dropped all the DB tables and left the site completely inoperable, and/or defaced the front page. The fact that the underlying data was not wiped or replaced by a defaced page indicates that the attacker did not have the technical skills needed to perform such an act. So, indubitably a TSR attack.
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