AVSIM - Hacked

General
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Hi Guys,

Just incase any of you haven’t heard, AVSIM was recently taken down by hackers, which in effect destroyed their complete forum, and downloads databases. These guys have been running for 13 years now.

Here is the BBC link.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8049780.stm

AVSIM have setup a temporary forum in the meantime, until they get their site redeveloped.

Hope you guys don’t mind me posting this here; but i feel it is a great loss to the FS community.

http://linux.myalbemarle.org/forums/index.php

-James

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Yeah, I heard. It sucks. That’s why I keep offsite backups of everything. Of this server I have 4 running backups.

The things people will do…

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Version 9? PHP is only upto 5.

What evidence do you have that PHP is not secure? PHP and .NET are as secure as you make them. You can punch holes in any language, depending on how bad of a coder you are. PHP is not any more or less secure than .NET.

Their site was not hacked because of their coding; someone physically was at the command line and striped the partitions from the drives.

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Avsim is coming back! http://linux.myalbemarle.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=419

sometime this weekend they should have the site back up and running.

Cheers

Dan C