Oh wait, not that kind of fixing. ;)

it'll prompt you to change your password once. I suggest you think of one before you type it in - it needs an uppercase char, lowercase char, and a number

why would anyone hack a mud? well, several reasons… possibly they're unhappy with some decision I or one of the other imps made, and either have knowledge of network security flaws, or have friends that do. Perhaps they play another MUD and don't want to see ours running. Maybe they're just bored. Anyway, not pissing off these people is just as important as beefing up security, because no security will ever be enough - saying your server is absolutely secure is just inviting someone who's clever enough and has enough time to hack it. Xevira does have a point - he could have done a lot more damage if he had known what he was doing. But I wouldn't call them morons just yet; obviously they know something I wasn't astute enough to spot.

Londo had an interesting idea... perhaps some of the imms havn't changed their passwords from the last time we got hacked. But this is unlikely , seeing as how that was 1.5+ years ago.. .but anyway a global password change would solve it.

sometime pretty soon we're going to fix Ertai up with some shell access so he can fix what's needed from there, restart the game if needed, etc. This won't be until I have some time to tutor him on some security things and some basic aspects of how the game runs. This will allow the game to be up more often, and I will work on making it more stable.

I've almost finished my code changes to the game. I'm really sorry I havn't done it yet, but I've had work really early almost every day this week, a whole lot of reading and also a lengthy programming assignment to do for a class, as well as lots of social stuff (like smoking reefer) so I'm pretty exhausted, but I'll have it up by tomorrow definitely. hope you all have a good day :)

That's just my guess... the moron. If you're gonna to the trouble of breaking into a mud, at least have the brains to know what you're doing. He could have done alot worse if he had damaged as much as possible and performed a shutdown (had he managed to hack into an IMP... alot more files would have been saved to disk.. alot more damage to fix. So yeah, that's where the "much worse" business came in. I kinda figured he wouldn't have the ability to outright DELETE the stuff without shell access.

Hell, I think we should all feel insulted... being "hacked" by an obvious moronic amateur. -_- I know I do.... :evil:

Soth if I was a guy you would scare me there, but since I'm not I think I'm safe…..for now. Yea, we're a hate filled family of misfits here who might fight and bicker between each other but if our little world is threatened we all band toether.</quote>

Like a big feudin' family of hillbillies.

Only way to laugh at that moron since he obviously didn't know what he was doing. He could have done ALOT worse with the immortal accounts he got into.</quote>
naw, imm accounts are pretty safe. For security purposes even if you're lv155, there's no way to destroy data outside the game from within the game. you can't do a game wipe or data wipe without having access to the machine the game is running on, and that's highly monitored. therefore the damage you can do is pretty limited, and reversible. i just hadn't talked to londo about setting up a daly backup job to save all the data. but i have a backup nonetheless.

and more as practicing the art of ajudication.

:)

Soth

Also, he needed me to log in for him to get my password, otherwise he would have just gone straight for my character or higher. He obviously thought Serenity was unable to be punished, so when I froze him, he was taken offguard.

I don't think we'd need something to change every week, but I do agree that everyone needs to change their passwords once we've restored just to be safe (for logs and such that the hacker may have)

It looked almost as though (from the logs) that he went down the list of immortal powers and used them until he got bored (after finding security ones… siteban/wizlock/etc) The only thing that I could forsee causing real problems is if he messed with the wilds. Everything else can be set back pretty easy.

Anyways, I can't wait to get back up. I'm glad everyone feels so close to the people here (testicle and treeshredder or not)

We kick ass!

eRT

shrug, dunno.

back to being an asshole elsewhere

and yes.

we do all stick together. i might never say it much, but you ppl are pretty decent :) doesnt mean i dont want to take some of you and thrust you head-first into a wood chipper, or put other ppl's testicles in a blender on puree...but yeah.

Later

Soth

And yes, I agree with Belexus… readies MUSHClient and his leveling fingers :D Ok, I can wait. :)

As for what Syn said about them possibly guessing the passwords, I think that's a good reason that we should be forced to change our passwords now and then. Anybody who finds that too much of an inconvenience to play… probably couldn't take Sentience in it's entirety anyway.

Again, I hope things aren't too bad, and that we're up and runnin' again soon. I know a lot of people cough ME cough are bored because they don't have anything to do.

What does that means? You that got CPKd, might not have lost anything. Those that were remorted, might not have corrupted pfiles. And all that might need restoring would be the game files and the affected pfiles (with perhaps some bit of compensation). Hell, if areas were merely closed and whatnot, nothing deleted/butchered, those might not need restoring, just reopened. I DO know the church files are in a definite need of repair.

Anyways, that's alot of might's and maybe's. But hey, it could have been much worse. And even if the game were simply restored from the 19th's backup, it's not much loss for many people. We'll just to see when we get to log on.

On a side note in an attempt to bring some levity to the situation... did anyone else have visions of Matrix: Revolutions with the rampant Smiths destroying the Matrix and whatnot? Only way to laugh at that moron since he obviously didn't know what he was doing. He could have done ALOT worse with the immortal accounts he got into.