http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=52062.0 "A malicious attack was made on the wildwinds website database yesterday (Friday) evening (US time) during which hundreds of lines of html coding were deleted and the altered files re-uploaded. The server technicians blocked the access at 9 pm California time." theres a few things you can do for now to still access the pages that are gone. change the i.html to t.html to veiw the thumbnail, this doesnt work on all though also archive.org has it archived and you can use googles cached feature Much more info on the link at the top
I'd like to know the exploit that they used. PHP software, such as cointalk, is a big target because the developer community is frankly reckless (and very young) with security. ANd PHP itself is a very exposed tool. It takes a lot of boring and non-exciting work you close down holes in most PHP websites. They need to do a forensics and publish the exploit ASAP. Ruben
Accessing a file that had been nefariously altered is a good way to get a virus attack. I'm not saying this did happen in this example but I hope that those of you that clicked on the link have anti-virus software in place.
Archive.org is great...but isn't that great. I've gone there to look up some very popular sites that have gone off-line. In alot of cases they save the front page and those photos, but the rest of the inside pages are either missing, or are missing all of the images. Speedy
I will just opin that if you have ever done the clean the filthy Roman coin project like my son and I have, Wildwinds is invaluable.
