13-09-2023, 12:57 PM
There have been a number of hacking attempts on this forum, in major proportions in the last day or so but in lower levels over the last couple of weeks. The obvious indication is that the forum becomes very slow to respond plus the 'users in the last 15 minutes ' count skyrockets. This morning it was around 4300 where normally it remains well under 200-300.
I took the forum off line so that it was no longer in overload mode while the hackers tried their best. The SQL server was rejecting all requests for service (hence the slow speed) but there has not been any actual successful hack, data access or data loss. Please recall that only callsigns, a password and email addresses are requested on signup/registration so nothing totally critical is available to hackers anyway. The software that runs the forum is up to date with security patches at this time.
In the event that I see a recurrence, I will re-activate a static HTML page that de-activates the forum until I am ready to make it available again - hopefully the hackers will have given up by then ! The presence of the static page will be obvious as, while it has the logo, it has no menu or login options etc..
Doug, admin
I took the forum off line so that it was no longer in overload mode while the hackers tried their best. The SQL server was rejecting all requests for service (hence the slow speed) but there has not been any actual successful hack, data access or data loss. Please recall that only callsigns, a password and email addresses are requested on signup/registration so nothing totally critical is available to hackers anyway. The software that runs the forum is up to date with security patches at this time.
In the event that I see a recurrence, I will re-activate a static HTML page that de-activates the forum until I am ready to make it available again - hopefully the hackers will have given up by then ! The presence of the static page will be obvious as, while it has the logo, it has no menu or login options etc..
Doug, admin
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