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Off Topic => General Discussion => Topic started by: Nowhere Man on August 25, 2016, 06:13:50 PM

Title: CosmoQuest forums
Post by: Nowhere Man on August 25, 2016, 06:13:50 PM

Starting a few days ago, I've been unable to get to the CosmoQuest forums.  My regular link -- http://cosmoquest.org/forum/forum.php (http://cosmoquest.org/forum/forum.php) -- takes me to the CQ main page.  From there, the link to the forums -- http://cosmoquest.org/forum (http://cosmoquest.org/forum) -- shows a page that says "Server is having difficulties. Please be patient while we attempt to resolve these issues."  It's not even HTML, just plain text.

I remember about a day before that, an announcement link that looked very suspicious, claiming to be from God or some such.  I avoided it.

Does anyone know what's going on over there?

Fred

Title: Re: CosmoQuest forums
Post by: smartcooky on August 25, 2016, 07:13:27 PM

I'm having no trouble connecting to either of those links

Try again, and when the message comes up, press CTRL-F5



ETA: If that doesn't work, try one of these

http://www.refreshyourcache.com/en/home/

Title: Re: CosmoQuest forums
Post by: Nowhere Man on August 25, 2016, 08:42:37 PM

They got hacked. (https://forum.cosmoquest.org/showthread.php?162224-Hacking-Troubles)  Cory has secured the place and moved it to a new server.


Fred

Title: Re: CosmoQuest forums
Post by: bknight on August 26, 2016, 10:41:20 AM

Quote from: Nowhere Man on August 25, 2016, 08:42:37 PM

They got hacked. (https://forum.cosmoquest.org/showthread.php?162224-Hacking-Troubles)  Cory has secured the place and moved it to a new server.


Fred

Yep, I've got access today for the first time in a couple of days.  I wonder what achievement the hacker got over this hack?

Title: Re: CosmoQuest forums
Post by: revmic on August 26, 2016, 12:26:19 PM

Likely either practice in basic database hacking (best to due on non-commercial sites) or recruiting zombies with another target in mind