this is mostly a copy and paste from what i typed in the admin forum last night and will let you know why there currently isnt a homepage

i was contacted by our server company tonight that our server has been compromised, a hacker has found a way in and is using it to send SPAM emails, a violation of the terms of service for our server company and the datacenter where our server is housed in texas

i was instructed to delete the whole account for fullsizebronco.com, this means everything, the forum, all posts, users, database, EVERYTHING!

needless to say my heart dropped to my feat and i almost threw up, seriously

I pleaded with our server company to work with me and they have, for the last few hours i have been working to change account passwords, database passwords, deleting compromised files, searching for compromised scripts, deleting unused folders/files/scripts, i have changed and secured root passwords to the server and more that i cant think of

BUT we are not out of the woods yet, i have backed up the database and will start to transfer it to my computer tonight just in case, hopefully if something happens i can recreate the site from that, but they have indicated EVERYTHING may have been compromised, so a backup and restore may not help

the server company is reporting to the datacenter that we have complied with all requests to stop the SPAM, if the datacenter determines that we havent, then they can shut everything down, without warning

there is no homepage right now because the server co reported that the SPAM was being sent from the portal add on that we used as the homepage, i had to delete it completely along with some other suspect files/folders


please understand i am doing everything I can to secure the site, I feel comfortable that I got everything out last night but I will be digging even deeper today to be sure along with having the server administration company doing some digging and securing also

thank you for your understanding and patience while I sort all of this, I will get somekind of homepage back up soon

Joe

Holy Crap! :shocked

What a PITA... That's horrible news...

You rock for devoting so much time to this place...

Hopefully everything turns out better than it sounds like it might... Imagine if we started over!?!

Let us know if there's anything we can do for ya.

Thanks for trying to work this out Joe!

Aaron

Hopefully everything turns out better than it sounds like it might... Imagine if we started over!?!



i feel confident everything will be ok :thumbup

I know this is probably one of your last worries with everything going on, but can the hacker get our username passwords? Or spam our email accounts?

if we start over we will all be newbies, and wont be able to tell anyone to search. this sucks

I know this is probably one of your last worries with everything going on, but can the hacker get our username passwords? Or spam our email accounts?

good questions and something i meant to address in the above statement, the script that was found was just set up to send out their own spam lists, nothing with the site (ie:the database/users/passwords/emails/etc) were compromised

i used the word "hacked" because someone found a way in to set up their script but this was most likely done by a "bot" and not an actual person, we were not "hacked" in the traditional sense where a person gained control of the server and had their way with it

Found this posted on a site after GOOGLE'ing "spam email" and "hack"...“DO NOT visit the link in IE, it is some sort of Activex control hack”Some typically good advice is listed here (http://www.csu.edu.au/division/dit/service/infosheets/infosheet1.htm).

BTW, my email volume of junk has tripled since Nov/Dec.

Same with my email spam, I didnt think I looked at that much internet smut.

If any kind of donation to rebuild is needed, just say the word Joe. The information supplied here is worth far more than I could compare, but I'd bet twice that much that we'd all jump in with something. :thumbup

dang, that just sux, plain and simple.....i'm with 2nd if you need anything/donations...i have been meaning to become a fullsize member for a while, would you rather me wait a lil longer to see if this straightens out or would it come in handy now?

GOOD LUCK JOE AND THANKS FOR ALL YOU AND THE ADMINS DO!!!!

It's a conspiracy, Broncozone must be behind this:rofl: !

I have also been meaning to click on the "become a fullsize member" link for a while now---let us know if you want us to wait until this is over or if you want us to do it now. Of course, if there's anything else I can do just let me know:thumbup

Broncozone, Golden State Broncos, & recently Ranger Station have been hacked or comprimised...GS is gone now...
I posted these hacks before and hoped it would not occur here as well.
Have faith Joe and let me know if we can help here; will speak to son who is a CS.

Save us Joe!

wow that's awful

one of the other sites that i use is constantly flooded with spammers posting crap up, but have not been hacked.

i could not even begin to imagine how long of a job it would be to back up everything on this site

What about our personal info (credit card info, address, etc)?

What about our personal info (credit card info, address, etc)?


completely secure, thats handled all through paypal, has nothing to do with the site :thumbup

completely secure, thats handled all through paypal, has nothing to do with the site :thumbup

Cool. Couldn't remember how I paid and was concerned.

Good luck with getting everything back to normal. Thanx for your time and all your hard work.

Wow that sucks, I hate ****ing hackers theyve ruined some stuff of mine to man, glad you care so much about this place otherwise it wouldnt be so great. Good luck to! :rockon

BTW, my email volume of junk has tripled since Nov/Dec.
I wouldn't say tripled, but I did recently - like in the last couple months - start getting crap spam email that Yahoo was catching. It was just a paragraph of some off the wall stuff. After finally getting curious googled a sentence and found it to be like some kinda website blog. It all looks the same as far as how it's set up, just weird stories and blogs all coming from nothing in particular.



That's really gonna suck if you lose everything. Not just the technical side, but for me I go back and read my old threads and it reminds me of the little whiny, pain in the ass I used to be. :toothless

That's really gonna suck if you lose everything. Not just the technical side, but for me I go back and read my old threads and it reminds me of the little whiny, pain in the ass I used to be. :toothless


dont worry we wont lose anything :thumbup , the worst that can happen is we would have to move servers and recreate the site from back ups

wow hackers are a worthless bunch of asses, hope everything works out and they get run over by a bko while trying to cross the street

KILL THE FUKKERS!!!! Oh thanks for the great job on the site and if you need donations/help/whatever lemme know.

Joe, if you have to switch to another host and need a temporary place to host the site while you look for a new place, let me know.

KILL THE FUKKERS!!!!

Josh - got to catch 'em first!


Oh thanks for the great job on the site and if you need donations/help/whatever lemme know.

:stupid

Joe, if you have to switch to another host and need a temporary place to host the site while you look for a new place, let me know.


thanks Eric, I will keep that in mind forsure :thumbup


thanks for the kind words and support everyone, hopefully we have it solved, i will be keeping an eye on everything and having some more work and security work done in the next few days

:beer

Great Job, Joe! Thanks for the updates!

naturally I'm concerned. Was it an inherent weakness on the server or in the vb software? :shocked

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BTW, my email volume of junk has tripled since Nov/Dec.

same. I never got any until around Nov/Dec now i get a whole lot everyday. Doubt its related to this tho since it was just recently "hacked", right?

naturally I'm concerned. Was it an inherent weakness on the server or in the vb software? :shocked

it wasnt through vB, but I dont know forsure how it happened, it was through a email script i had used almost 2 years ago but never deleted, somehow the portal i was using on the homepage was used also, but the forum itself is secure

same. I never got any until around Nov/Dec now i get a whole lot everyday. Doubt its related to this tho since it was just recently "hacked", right?

yes, this just recently happened, the datacenter noticed as soon as the spam started going out so the two are unrelated

Well that explains all the spam email I've been getting. I was puzzled because I don't surf the net that much and certainly don't give out personal info freely. I have deleted and blocked about 3 dozen emails...at least.

I'm sorry to hear you/we are going through this BS. At the same time I'm glad to hear you are feeling the way you do ( ref first post ). I am proud to be associated with this site, especially when the owner is truely upset by this, not because of a loss of revenue, but because of all the knowledge and bantar that has gone on since the start, it would truely be a shame to lose all that and that is what you are concerned about. It is for this reason, that I'm proud to be a part of this FSB family............................................ ..........
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..............OK, I think I'm gonna puke now, after getting all mushy there. :uke:

Thanks for the updates and the problem solving Joe, I hope that everything will work out ok, and we can get out homepage back. Im with many about signing up if needed to help out, since I need to become a fullsize member anyway.

Damn...I know what you're going through. The same thing happened a couple years ago when I was in a Halo/Battlefield Vietnam/Counter-Strike 2 clan. First they got our forums, then our Teamspeak server, then our Dedicated Server. Nightmare and a half. Luckily we were all computer geeks, and we all had the database backed up on our own machines. After messing with some code, the site was back up and running in about a day, but the Teamspeak and DS were all jacked up. After phone calls to the server company admins, we were relocated to a different server, and our old one had to be wiped...the hacker was using it as a spam/porn site host.

Good luck Joe!

Thanks Joe for all you do! Sorry I missed this like I do everything else....

I don't ever get spam bc gmail is awesome but... I am not getting any emails again from FSB tho...

Hi everyone:

Just back from my holiday trip and found something went havoc with the FSB site...

Damn hackers, they really should think more about getting laid than f***in' up someone else's computers....

Anyway, a big thanks to Joe for his efforts in bringing everything back to normal :thumbup

Oh, and a happy 2007 for everybody (please don't say this is the wrong forum for saying that :rofl: )

whats with the portals page? i was beginning to wonder if that was all there was left of our beloved site

whats with the portals page? i was beginning to wonder if that was all there was left of our beloved site

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whats with the portals page? i was beginning to wonder if that was all there was left of our beloved site


its just the home page, the last homepage was a portal page also, i still have to tweak this one to make it look better / have better content, but I wanted to get something back on the main page

I was wondering the last couple of days why it was redirecting and such. I was confused, woah now I know!

Glad to hear that things are under control!

I don't know what I would do without my daily fix of FSB every day!

What's wrong with people that would do that, senseless?

I'm not working yet but I'll throw in a couple of bucks if you need it OK ~

:enforce "Hunt them down and kill them I say"

I joined yesterday 1-9-07, so it shouldn't mess with new enrollees will it??
I dont know much, but will help if asked.

Joe,

Thank You for keeping the site Running .

Jim

if we could catch the bastards, i know i wouldnt have to order any of those 'trucknutz' to hang on the bronco

Joe, ignore my PM, I didn't see this thread. Thanks.

Soooo... how is the progress? I see the homepage is up, but the "newest" threads are gone and a lot of homepage links are not functioning...


Any help i can offer...

Great to see the HOME page back, Thanks

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:thumbup great job, i likey the new format of the homepage!!
:rockon :twotu: :clap
three cheers for joe!!!:upup: