Sequoia Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Interesting, so did he contact you guys for payment on a fix or something? Maybe he wanted Combat Mission Campaigns released or else. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Radley Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Maybe he wanted Combat Mission Campaigns released or else. "HMGs will be able 2 run in CM Normandy or I will shut U down 4Evar!!11!!11!" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stikkypixie Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 And Microsoft loses another customer to Apple. I'm willing to bet that it's MS losing another customer to some Linux server, unless you are referring to yourself of course. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanish Bombs Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Is this really a viable criminal enterprise? This hacking attempt was clearly flawed for the reasons, among others, that Steve cited above. I've always thought that any type of 'hostage-taking' that required some sort of payment that could be electronically traced would inevitably be thwarted or easily thwart-able. Or were they demanding suitcases full of cash like some sort of South American hostage deal? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_the_wino Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 We have some clues where it originated from, but I won't go into details here. It was the Chinese, wasn't it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Maybe he wanted Combat Mission Campaigns released or else. But the source code is already released, so... but then, probably he wouldn't have the necessary skills to do anything with it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 It was the Chinese, wasn't it? It was the Norwegian cod mafia. I have no proof but I'm adamant that it was them. Is this really a viable criminal enterprise? This hacking attempt was clearly flawed for the reasons, among others, that Steve cited above. I've always thought that any type of 'hostage-taking' that required some sort of payment that could be electronically traced would inevitably be thwarted or easily thwart-able. Or were they demanding suitcases full of cash like some sort of South American hostage deal? I suppose you haven't heard of money laundering? Although it is quite possible that these types do this just for griefing purposes, rather than monetary gain. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeatEtr Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 It was the Chinese, wasn't it? Probably some disgruntled BF fan upset there hasn't been a CMN bone since x-mas. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Probably some disgruntled BF fan upset there hasn't been a CMN bone since x-mas. Hmm... is this a confession? :mad: Please inform FBI of MeatEtr 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolf66 Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 I Anyway, I have a hunch that this came from somewhere in the EU. I don't know what put that in my head, but there it is. Michael The Finns !!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irwin666 Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Who/what is Dorosh? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeatEtr Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Hmm... is this a confession? :mad: Please inform FBI of MeatEtr Haha, well judging by the long list of bitching and whining threads/posts about it, the suspect list would be long. For the record, I didn't start any of those threads. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 We don't know how the proposed payment was to be made, but if the hacker is sitting in a country with fairly low international accountability, they really don't have to worry about tracking. It's also pretty easy to setup an "offshore" account that is very difficult to trace. The crux of it is that going after people like this costs someone a LOT of money. Either private or governmental, usually both. So these guys can usually get away with this sort of behavior simply because the cost of going after them is not worth it. Kinda like for every terrorist killed before he bombs there is probably already another one in training to replace him/her. The only effective way to combat cyber terrorists is to have vetted, legally sanctioned counter attacks where "good" hackers pursue and destroy (virtually) "bad" hackers. Cyber warfare. It's already happening, but it's not exactly legal for private citizens to just go out and do it. And to follow up on an earlier point... Microsoft did lose out on this one because we're now running on a MacOS server. This was planned mostly for server maintenance reasons with better security as a secondary selling point. As it turns out the security benefits became more important to us since our initial decision to dump Windows. Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolf66 Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Who/what is Dorosh? here I think is a Dorosh 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
souldierz Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Sounds like Battlefront is ridding over this bump fairly well:) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 It could have been much worse, definitely. The big plus was already being mostly along the path of migration to a new server. If we hadn't been close to moving anyway this would have been a much more difficult process because we would have been forced to try and rebuild the old server. That could have taken days and still not fixed the security problems. Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YankeeDog Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 I'm willing to bet that it's MS losing another customer to some Linux server, unless you are referring to yourself of course. Well, Steve beat me to the punch, but you'd lose that bet. It's pretty easy to find out what the server operating system is for a given website, and Battlefront.com is now coming to us courtesy of a server running Mac OSX Server. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethaface Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Ah, good to have BF.C back I was scared Apple had took over and decided to ban all current games since they were not allowed in the Appstore Well you'd be surprised what a hacker can do with a simple picture upload script if the file permissions are set wrong. Seems that the hacker had sort of took over the whole server. Don't want to scare nobody but with exploitable linux/unix/bsd kernels this is still possible, only less likely to happen when compared to a windows server. Working for an ISP I know that almost all hosts get scanned daily for one or the other exploitable forum or similar scripts and what else it is they scan for. Updating software is a crucial thing for important online services. I hope that the new (I presume OSX? ) servers will help BF.C's administrators preventing future problems like this. EDIT: Ah I see that Steve has affirmed it are apple servers, d@mn my slow typing skillz! Nobody else saw that large OSX e-mail banner at this very website for quite some time? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Is this really a viable criminal enterprise? This hacking attempt was clearly flawed for the reasons, among others, that Steve cited above. I've always thought that any type of 'hostage-taking' that required some sort of payment that could be electronically traced would inevitably be thwarted or easily thwart-able. Or were they demanding suitcases full of cash like some sort of South American hostage deal? This sort of attack and blackmail is pretty common. Normally you don't hear about it since organizations can either react in time or prefer to fake a regular outage by just pulling the plug out of the whole system. Plus, if you are not on Wind0ze it is easier to clean up. Payments into Russia should be pretty safe for the blackmailer. Good lucky sending the local police after a money transfer. BTW, Steve, you are missing the favicon on the new erver. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle2 Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Is anyone else unable to get onto the main site still? You've said it's back online, but it still says its under maintanance whenever I go to it. It wants me to imput my windows username and password to check for credentials. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 It appears they're prioritizing what gets back online in what order. The CMSF chat board was of course first on their list. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle2 Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Lol, ok. Just wondering if it was my computer or something else. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawk Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Steve, with some of our info on the server (e-mail, e-lic codes etc), any danger of the hacker getting anything usefull? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethaface Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Well basically he could have all e-mail addresses since they were used in a virus spam run, but passwords would have been stored encrypted so that *should* not be readable 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stikkypixie Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 Well, Steve beat me to the punch, but you'd lose that bet. It's pretty easy to find out what the server operating system is for a given website, and Battlefront.com is now coming to us courtesy of a server running Mac OSX Server. Hah! I didn't even know Apple made server, I guess I'm I just lost all my nerd credibility here 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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