Hacker Trouble

[miskie]

No problem

 

As for A@H -- I have no problem with Tim Eckel, at all, -- He has  zero tolerance for crap, especially hackertypes, and I cant say I blame him. A@H has always been a target, and will continue to be one until it goes dark for the last time.

 

Woah! I just visited A@H and then I saw they said they require you to use Firefox! This is the first time I've ever seen a site that REQUIRES you to use something other than IE to visit the site!

 

Does this mean Firefox is the most secure browser? Will you consider a browser requirement like that for this site?

 

No -- Unless GC implemets that.. there is no reason to use one browser over another, other than some browsers do not display pages as they were intended to be displayed.

[retroK]

This is the first time I've ever seen a site that REQUIRES you to use something other than IE to visit the site! 

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R. Bannister does the same, but only on Fridays:

http://www.bannister.org/

 

Firefox might be more secure atm but this could change rapidly as Firefox is gaining more users. More users attracks more hackers...

Edited April 12, 2006 by retroK

[Lucandrake]

I like firefox, but I wouldn't mind changing to a rarely used browser for security reasons.

[garyoak99]

Tim is only in it for the money not the security, so he get $1 for each person who downloads firefox with the google bar. I'm glad I downloaded firefox earlier before that happened.

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Thanks for the warning! I only wish I had seen this before I downloaded and installed it though. I guess Tim is now $1 richer...

[Weirdy]

I bet it's nothing compared to the rest of the ads on the site (which I have blocked with adblock )

[garyoak99]

I bet it's nothing compared to the rest of the ads on the site (which I have blocked with adblock )

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Really? What sort of Adblocker do you use?

 

I think I can begin to understand why hackers like to target A@H; everything from the Firefox ad to the other ads in the site can get really annoying really quick!

 

It's a good thing this site is now free of ads as far as I can see!

[Agozer]

I bet it's nothing compared to the rest of the ads on the site (which I have blocked with adblock )

 

Really? What sort of Adblocker do you use? :unsure

Adblock Plus + FilterSet.G. The best ever.

[Wizard]

Any browser you use is deemable as "f cked" to begin with. Some just have more stablity controls then others.

 

Then give me that I.E. BS. You know it, if you tweak that sheit accordingly, it's practically free sailings.

[Superman]

A@H works fine for me and I use IE.

[Robert]

Same here. And there are no ads because I blocked them all.

 

Admittedly I only tried the forum.

[Weirdy]

I bet it's nothing compared to the rest of the ads on the site (which I have blocked with adblock )

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Really? What sort of Adblocker do you use?

it's a firefox extension called "Adblock"

 

it allows you to block any images, iframes, and flash videos

[garyoak99]

Adblock Plus + FilterSet.G. The best ever.

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Thanks! I got it and it works great!

[James]

Good work Miskie! (very long time no hear).

 

And thanks to GameCop for the efforts to get us functional.

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thanks, although I dont often post, I do lurk alot -- mainly to make sure all is well.

 

the changes I made yesterday should keep everything running smoothly - since thrn, there have been several exploit attempts against the server (probably because in hacker communities its now listed as exploitable) and all of these attempts have met with failure.

 

When I found the exploit used, I not only plugged that, but I plugged many, many others -- some I might have had, others that I didnt -- but I plugged them anyway.

 

I even plugged windows exploits, even though this is a Linux system (you would be surprised how many hackers try to gain access by attempting to exploit a nonexistant windows directory structure)

 

along with plugging the exploits, I also blacklisted several known hacker resource sites, several types of tools, several proxy servers, and other bad things.

 

If any of you use a proxy, it may no longer work -- Sorry, but, 'dem's the breaks' -- either find another or abondon your proxy altogether.

 

I didnt go as far as Teckel of Arcade@home and ban the Entire Asia Pacific region, but I could If Im pressed into it.

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Nice work miskie, good to see you spotted the problems

[Weirdy]

I didnt go as far as Teckel of Arcade@home and ban the Entire Asia Pacific region, but I could If Im pressed into it.

If you try to go in using an anonymous/non-elite proxy, you'll be redirected to a picture of goatse. It says something like "John Kerry, open to new ideas."

[Sturmvogel]

I think I've figured out who...or actually what was behind the attacks. It's the Patriots! They're trying to bring 1Emu to its knees....curses!

 

I was able to decrypt the message La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo from the info about their actions...