Main website security alert
On saturday I recieved a attack warning from the server saying numeral attempts were being made to malliciously attack the site.
As per protocol this IP was banned from the forums, site AND server.
Unfortunately I have come down with a nasty case of Foodpoisoning saturday early evening, and what little time I have spent online I really havent been in here to post about it.
Turns out the attack came from a harvested IP mask of a ROM forum member - this means something somewhere knew the IP range of a member on there and hoped it was more powerful than it was, and used thier IP to 'mask' thier own.
Ive unblocked the member from the forums and the site (subject to no more attacks coming from that IP) however I cant promise the server will accept the unban, so bear with me as we try fix that issue.
Ive made every effort to make sure data such as IPs etc is well hidden from spammers, viral farmers etc however as much as we can protect, you need to protect yourselves.
Do not post email...
2009-03-17 3:32 AM PDT by
Haemathet (haematheti)
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