Somersoft Hacked?
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Definitely some sort of hack, it's on everyone's signature, but not in the settings.
I'd strongly advise against clicking the link.
I'd strongly advise against clicking the link.
Sim
Administrator
Okay - yes, the forums were hacked. They inserted a bitly link at the end of everyone's signature, plus changed everyone's userprofile homepage to the same link.
The fix was easy and didn't take long (restored that data from recent backup), but I needed to spend some time searching through the database to see if I could detect any other changes that had been made.
Apologies for the extended outage.
Please let me know if you find anything strange or suspicious on the site.
I will continue investigating the source and cause of this hack.
The fix was easy and didn't take long (restored that data from recent backup), but I needed to spend some time searching through the database to see if I could detect any other changes that had been made.
Apologies for the extended outage.
Please let me know if you find anything strange or suspicious on the site.
I will continue investigating the source and cause of this hack.
Great work Sim. Hacks happen, it's how they're handled that counts. 
Because they're losers.
On the basis of a weight loss link inserted into people's signatures, the hacker may be deemed to be The Biggest Loser
Thanks for getting SS up and running so quickly Sim.
Thanks Sim....For a moment there, I thought work IT had blocked the site!
That's pretty dumb, as if nobody would notice.
Time for vB 4.1.
I was online when it happened but did'nt notice "funny" sigs.
Unfortuantely the people on the other side of the link may not be the culprits, but some affiliate.
Oh well, the chatroom for fun for a while.
edit:
I just noticed the " Â " in my sig that I edited out.
Time for vB 4.1.
I was online when it happened but did'nt notice "funny" sigs.
Unfortuantely the people on the other side of the link may not be the culprits, but some affiliate.
Oh well, the chatroom for fun for a while.
edit:
I just noticed the " Â " in my sig that I edited out.
Sim
Administrator
We will be migrating to XenForo actually - which is why we haven't upgraded in a while.
I've been waiting for some key features to be released in XenForo, plus porting some of my custom vBulletin plugins to XenForo so we can get similar functionality on the new site.
http://www.somersoft.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76639
After starting the above thread, I received an email supposedly from "google" and the subject was something like "Important changes to have greater control with google" I just assumed it was a hacking with my email account associated with this site. Is that typical?
After starting the above thread, I received an email supposedly from "google" and the subject was something like "Important changes to have greater control with google" I just assumed it was a hacking with my email account associated with this site. Is that typical?
Do you use gmail, google calendar or any other google services with an account? I don't know the email you got, but they have actually made some significant changes to poilcy which they are doing all they can to let their customers know about.
Possibly google earth
