Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Hacker Attacks

Update: Thursday evening. FIG has been running pretty well today. I made some modifications to reduce sensitivity to errors and hackers. Still watching closely. Looking for some new fonts for the May font update. Any requests?

Update: Weds. afternoon. No further problems observed since shutting down image upload. Still watching closely.

FIG has been up (mostly) for going on two days but there have been several periods of downtime along the way due to hacker attacks. Recovery from these periods required a server restart to be done manually. We're investigating this now. Meanwhile image upload features have been disabled as it appears that is the avenue being used by hackers to exploit the site.

2 comments:

  1. When can we upload photos to the fig to write on ?

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  2. Thanks for the post. The image upload features were disabled to prevent hacking the site. I'm sorry it was nrecessary We're now reworking those features along with a few others to have improved security.

    Best completion estimate at this point is about two weeks - about June 1

    Regds
    ~Jeff

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