Hi,

yesterday it looked as we have been the victim of a vicous hacker-attack.
Instead of the Action Soft / MM - related pages appeared an Arab-looking hacker site !

What the f.... was that ?!

I don't know who solved it....but sure somebody did ?!

MAYBE it was only a warning and the hackers re-did it themselves, because I remember the pages' name included the word "hackteach", as in:
"We're gonna teach you that we can knock you down any second...."

What a world.....   8-)    :'(    

Hi!
I am also glad we are back. I wonder if Vern is aware of the attack?

I thought it was a school for hackers  ;D

Seriously though, I can see why the recent bombings in Gaza would upset people, but that has nothing to do with Midnight Mansion. Why attack here??

Clearly, idiots come in every flavor.

I took a screenshot of it, anybody read Arabic?

No, I don't read arabic, so the hacking has just annoyed me and haven't been able to do anything positive.

I do sympathise with both sides so both sides should end their violence.  >:( >:(

I hope for a much calmer and happier New Year for everyone, even the hackers!!

I did a Google translation on the site. The one URL was an arabic forum. Ironic huh that they took over our MM forum. And if you went to the main ActionSoft URL, the URL they had was very much in your face and to the point on their feelings.

I am also relieved to have MM forums back.  ;D

Scary stuff.  >:(

I'm glad we got MM back so quickly, I was afraid it was going to be much longer.

Happy New Year, and Peace!

The forum is back..... but I still do have problems opening it sometimes.

When I hit my direct link (to the last 30 posts) it normally takes about 3 seconds for the MM page to load. In the last few days it often "loads" for more than 4 minutes and sometimes still not opens.

An hour later it might work almost normal again.
I don't get it.

This must not be related to the hacker-attack.... but I never experienced this phenomenon before the attack.   :P    :'(

Hi -

Do you use Safari as your browser?  If so the latest update included a Fraudulent sites option in the Advanced settings.  If this is ticked then some sites won't load/take ages to load and I unticked mine because of this.  Obviously MM is not a fraudulent site, but it might add time to the load as the page is being checked?

M
;D

Yes, I use Safari.
But now that you mention it...... I updated to a later version of Safari last week (now I use 3.2.1) and I will check the setting you mentioned. (I have never seen this in earlier versions).

Maybe that's the reason, and I should also uncheck this option ?!

However, what if a really "fraudulent site" comes along......  >:(

Matari, the option was indeed ticked !!
I really have never noticed this before......   and I'm still a little unsure if I should really uncheck this...... but maybe I'll at least give it a try, next time the forum won't load.

Thanks for the tip !

Hi!
The choice is tick in my Safari too and I didn't have any problem.

aquaMat - you've had difficulties with your Internet provider before and they might have too many users which might slow down the connection considerably.

From a cold but snowless southern Sweden

rose wrote on 03.01.2009 at 17:38:45:

aquaMat - you've had difficulties with your Internet provider before and they might have too many users which might slow down the connection considerably

That's true, Rose..... but if this was the reason, ALL pages would load slowly, not just the MM-forum !

But anyway...... since yesterday morning I didn't have it anymore.
So probably everything is back to normal again......

Not sure if it's related, but I have been experiencing problems today. I started a post in The Mall thread and when attempting the post at first with an attachment, it just sat there like it was slowly, slowly loading. Stopped that and did another post without the attachment. Did manage to attach one file replying to that post, but while trying to attach my second screenshot it has sat there for over 30 minutes!

I think it is just a bad connection.  I've experienced the same sometimes.

I have to say that the problem I reported above did NOT happen anymore during the last 5 days or so.....

So, indeed, it probably was not related to the hacker attack !

But still - I sometimes wonder - what the hell this attack has been about....   why us?   And why "hackteach"  ?

And what with this Arab language.....
I could very well imagine the real guys behind all this being some bored teenagers from Nowheresville, Arkansas who said to themselves...."You know what? It'll frighten them even more if we pretend we're an Arab site...ha..ha".

And in the end....this thought is even more frightening to me, than if the site was really arabic.... to be honest.  :o

My guess is that the real people from the Middle East have other problems to care about than making hacker-attacks on harmless game forums.

Heh, didn't see this thread when it was first posted, but yes, I was all too aware of the attack at the time... and contacted my web hosting company about it immediately, but it took them a while to be able to fix it. I was at their mercy until then.

At first, I was afraid someone might have erased everything on my web site! Fortunately, that wasn't the case, it was just a DNS issue, where they pointed actionsoft.com to some other server. Apparently, *all* websites hosted by my company had been hacked at the same time.