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Post by hills »

oops. looks like all the stats are missing from topsites. :(
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Hi all,

Tis a charming world we live in...not.
Now I know why the original Top Sites ended up belly down and toes up :)

But us kiwis are stubborn and dont like to be beat :lol:

It seems that there was a 'force code-injection attack' on the MySQL through the join up form. The IP traced back to China.
The database has been rebuilt although we have lost some data but thankfully none of the banners/stations.

Firewall measures have been increased to hopefully prevent this happening again.

Cheers now
Jenny
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Post by pernaczy »

Hi,
Unfortunately it seems that you have lost at least one (my) banner/station (I tried to log in to my account and it says "invalid username"). So I tried to "rejoin" and it looks that "Wellinton" is again NOT NZ capital (see attachement). Attached screenshot has been taken on 1 March 2014 at 1146 CET.
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and corrected again... sigh :roll:

Try again :)
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And for some positives, all good here :clap:
But us kiwis are stubborn and don't like to be beat :lol:
and I have learned/experienced that of recent!

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Post by hills »

Yes, I had to rejoin too.

Good work Jenny & team, don't let them beat you!! :clap:
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Sorry for the resign ups.
We went back a couple of backups to be on the safe side.

I have employed 2 big tough kiwis to stand guard at the door with machine guns :twisted:
Fingers crossed we are ok now.

@PaulMy and just to clarify that, it wasnt me....lol

Cheers now
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Looks like it has gone again, banner not loading on my site and URL says site not available.
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Hi all

Here is an update on Topside. It seems that some want to bring this site down...

DDOS Attack on our IP
We have just received a HUGE (over 3GB/s incoming traffic) DDoS attack to the IP

Our CISCO guard firewall was unable to handle this attack, so the IP was temporarily disabled. As soon as the attack is over, this IP address will be enabled and your website will start working again.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your patience.

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What have you done to warrant this, wouldn't have thought that there much kudos in attacking Topsite!!
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What have you done to warrant this, wouldn't have thought that there much kudos in attacking Topsite!!
Nothing!! This was a DDoS attack, the IP range was attacked, so all sites on that range where stopped. It was not a directed attack on Topsites, but the IP range in general.

Don't forget the server admin do there best, but these attacks happen to all servers from time to time. I for one can understand why the first site was removed, if this was happening.
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Post by hills »

Bugga!! Still they took the appropriate action so I see this as a success story... well done! :clap:
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Post by uncle_bob »

Hey Brendan and Jenny, sorry to hear about the hack attack.

Those captha's are a pain in the butt.
Have you considered or seen this picture puzzle capthas?
On a forum where I help out, we changed to one (from here https://www.keycaptcha.com/products/ ).
Doing so removed 99.9% of the spammer sign ups as the robots can't figure it out (yet).
They're also a bit more fun than trying to read the numbers/letters from the background with the current captha.

Just throwing out the idea.
Cheers Bob.
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Post by thomas74 »

Hello
i want to add my second weather station in http://cumulussites.net/ , how can i do that .... must be create a new account?

Thomas

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Hi,

Yes create a new account as it will need a separate ID.
You can use your same details and email address though.

Cheers.
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