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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: ple3003 on December 09, 2004, 01:29:43 PM

Title: what´s up with MorphZone? It´s gone!
Post by: ple3003 on December 09, 2004, 01:29:43 PM
What the hell happened? i haven´t seen any news about MorphZone shutting down att all..
It can´t just dissappear man!
Spooky.
Title: Re: what´s up with MorphZone? It´s gone!
Post by: Nitro on December 09, 2004, 01:35:34 PM
Same thing as last time.  Targhan wrote " Bah. Persistant buggers. They're back, and this time in full force. MorphZone's server is in for a severe upgrade from the ground up. Unfortunately, we may be down for another few days.

I do apologize to all MorphZone and PPCZone users for this."

Targhan
Title: Re: what´s up with MorphZone? It´s gone!
Post by: on December 09, 2004, 01:46:46 PM
Quote

ple3003 wrote:
What the hell happened? i haven´t seen any news about MorphZone shutting down att all..
It can´t just dissappear man!
Spooky.


Red Troll script kiddies perhaps? ;-)
Title: Re: what´s up with MorphZone? It´s gone!
Post by: Nitro on December 09, 2004, 01:49:15 PM
Or maybe somebody didn`t pay their BILLs, hmmm, sounds like something else I read.
Title: Re: what´s up with MorphZone? It´s gone!
Post by: on December 09, 2004, 03:41:56 PM
In short, their server was hacked into via a previously unknown vulnerability.  It has nothing to do with Red/Blue or even MorphZone.  Someone simply found and exploited a server hole brought about by the fact that their server software hadn't been updated by the server provider for a couple of years.

As soon as they get their server rebuilt, they'll be back.

Wayne
Title: Re: what´s up with MorphZone? It´s gone!
Post by: ple3003 on December 09, 2004, 03:51:48 PM
Ha ha. ok. {bleep} happens...
Title: Re: what´s up with MorphZone? It´s gone!
Post by: on December 09, 2004, 04:01:25 PM
It's not really funny.  Amiga.org has gone through similar things in the past and it's a very difficult thing to deal with.  I've given Dave an offer of support but he's rather busy on his side of getting things back in order.

Wayne