AmigaWorld.Net hacked

[kolla]

What a hateful statement to make.  Guess haters have to hate.

Considering what I got in my inbox on commodore-amiga.org after pointing out my concerns regarding CUSA's claim on the long abandoned Amiga checkmark, I can only agree.

[Vanilla]

I can't believe we still don't know anything. I hope the hackers didn't get in there and kidnap the mods on the internet. :confused:

This is too quiet. Why aren't they telling us anything?

Is CUSA still alive? ;-)

[weiseb]

They're on the same server. It was just a hiccup, both sites are working fine again.

Thanks for the fast reply.
Hope aw.net is back soon, too.

[vox]

Hmmm ... cant open AW.net for few days
Temporary trouble or something serious?

[Terminills]

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=60346

[number6]

Hmmm ... cant open AW.net for few days
Temporary trouble or something serious?

Is AW.net down?

#6

[vox]

Just noticed it, so its general issue, hope it will be fixed soon (as well as for Aminet)

[number6]

Just noticed it, so its general issue, hope it will be fixed soon (as well as for Aminet)

There is nothing wrong with Aminet

#6

[mousehouse]

And for Aminet you can always connect to one of the mirrors directly. This does not provide a mirror of the website, but all the files are accessible.

[_ThEcRoW]

Sorry, posted on wrong thread

[_ThEcRoW]

This is clearly an attack on Amiga. :angry:
There is one sick bastard on the loose out there somewhere!
 

Gizmo, what was that capture?. Please explain

Thanks in advance!!!

[Karlos]

We had three separate threads about this now, so I've combined them.

I have been in touch with some of the staff from the site last last night. I don't know what the exact situation is now, but at around 1am GMT the then available information implied the site and potentially the server on which it is hosted have been been subjected to a concerted attack.

The issues with aminet and aros-exec were coincidental and not part of a wider attack pattern.

Since then, DNS is also been affected. The domain no longer points to the IP address of the server. There are a number of possible scenarios ranging from deliberate DNS cache poisoning to configuration issues or the result of measures taken to mitigate an ongoing DDoS.

I believe the site had a sound data backup policy, so once the immediate problems are fixed and any necessary post-mortem security fixes are in place, hopefully the site should be back up again.

[giZmo350]

Gizmo, what was that capture?. Please explain

Thanks in advance!!!

It's a screen shot from the game Hacker by Activision. :roflmao:
I thought a die-hard Commodore fan would have spotted it right off!
Just a little humor.
Anyhoo, hope that AW.Net is back to normal soon.

Anyone else notice that A.O is a little slow also?

[tomazkid]

I believe the site had a sound data backup policy, so once the immediate problems are fixed and any necessary post-mortem security fixes are in place, hopefully the site should be back up again.

Pretty much so, nightly backups scheme was introduced after the move to the new ISP last year. So in worst case scenario, 24 hours could be lost.

[CritAnime]

Anyone else notice that A.O is a little slow also?

Yup. Kinda of figure that it was my ISP at fault.

[giZmo350]

Yippee! AW.Net is back online!