G-NEWC Posted May 15, 2009 Report Posted May 15, 2009 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 Quote
Administrators Nabeel Posted May 15, 2009 Administrators Report Posted May 15, 2009 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... Quote
Guest CableGuy Posted May 20, 2009 Report Posted May 20, 2009 thats why its a good idea to use version 9 of php, its much more up to date and secure. (PHP is not all that secure at all. I like .NET Language). Quote
Administrators Nabeel Posted May 20, 2009 Administrators Report Posted May 20, 2009 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. Quote
Strider Posted May 23, 2009 Report Posted May 23, 2009 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 Quote
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