Hackers?

[AtkinsSJ_ 7]

https://www.simtropolis.com/ links to a page claiming that:

                                                             SYSTEM-DEFACERS//SU?KAST T?M

                                                CENG?Z-HAN,BAYRAKTAR,SAKATURKx,D4RKPEACE

                                                              TURKISH HACKERS WERE HERE

Luckily, I had a link to a CJ so I could get in. I'm assuming other people got past it? Sure is annoying though. Who'd want to hack Simtropolis? I reckon it's related to being in PC Gamer.

 

EDIT: Post clash. 2 minutes...

[Meastro444 1]

yes i got it too

i did know you could type index.cfm behind it so i could get in

this is the second time this month, is simtropolis vulnareble?

regards

Meastro444

[nr1lolz 0]

ya i saw it, waste of time to hack this site :/ ..

Edit: my first post ^^

[Imprezza05 1]

yes i got that too but you can still easily acces the site using the https://www.simtropolis.com/index.cfm instead.

[Camaron 1]

Not again, for the record I think it has only happened in the last 10 minutes. Hopefully dirk will fix it when he next comes online, for the time being you can access Simtropolis this way,

www.simtropolis.com/forum

www.simtropolis.com/index.cfm

[Mortone_dk 0]

Sad, so sad, i gues that some people really just are idiot beyound repair....

[devonald 0]

Make Simtropolis MORE secure (i say!)

[mjig_dudy 11]

here we go again

[Mortone_dk 0]

Sad, so sad, i gues that some people really just are idiot beyound repair....

[Filasimo 1]

you would think that Dirk placed more security after the first one? hope he adds some or more this time around

[Glenni 1,444]

How come they hacked www.simtropolis.com but not www.simtropolis.com/index.cfm  ?

sounds pretty pointless to me...

[devonald 0]

Simtropolis shuold be MORE secure!, we should have a password to enter!

[Glenni 1,444]

We already have a password to enter... it's called your password....

[Mortone_dk 0]

Sad, so sad, i gues that some people really just are idiot beyound repair....

[devonald 0]

Hackers get lost!!!, We wont to just Have fun, and do work on BAT!, So hackers *&!", OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hym 358]

Originally posted by: Filasimo you would think that Dirk placed more security after the first one? hope he adds some or more this time aroundquote>

Depending on the nature of the exploit, it can take teams of dedicated security personnel weeks to patch holes in software and systems.  Dirk is just one man, with a busy schedule to boot, let's give him the benefit of the doubt that he's trying to keep things as secure as possible.  The 2005 Thanksgiving hack is the reason why Dirk disabled HTML coding on the site when we upgraded to ST 5.0.  He wants the site to be an secure as reasonably possible, but sometimes the solution doesn't come quickly.

[devonald 0]

Why am I always talking about, this TIME-TO-STOP-TALKING-ABOUT-HACKERS!, as we need to repair ourselfs and the Website back 2 normal!, or itll go on all night!

[City2TheMax 3]

I just now saw it. I went directly to the forums though. Who the hell would want to do this lol?

[Rymac91 15]

Hmm...I belive turkish hackers were here

@Glenni I was wondering the same thing...unless they can't access anything else.

@Mortone_dk I'd consider them to be fairly smart if they know how to do it a second time and get away with it.

@devonald It should...but it's not one of those things you can push a few buttons and fix the problem...it takes time to find the hole then more time fixing it...and then you need to wait to see if it is working or not...if not...then you start all over again. Dirk has RL priorities to deal with as well which further delays solving the problem.

Just be patient

[Filasimo 1]

understandable hym and my apologies if my post sounded offending wasnt aiming for that just a concern that this site got hacked again but hopefully this new hole can be plugged

[Glenni 1,444]

Same happened to sporeum, same guys same text same pic.

[Voar Tok 4]

Originally posted by: Glenni How come they hacked www.simtropolis.com but not www.simtropolis.com/index.cfm  ?

sounds pretty pointless to me...quote>

People like these guys are out to cause a little bit of mayhem, but probably really don't care about taking the thing down.  They just want to see people get mad like we usually do in these threads.

[hym 358]

Originally posted by: Filasimo understandable hym and my apologies if my post sounded offending wasnt aiming for that just a concern that this site got hacked again but hopefully this new hole can be pluggedquote>

Understandable.  I too hope that Dirk is able to find the fix for the problem, and that it won't eat up a lot of his precious time.

[pilotdaryl 25]

Lets hope that these hackers go away! How did that old page get hacked? The redirect to index/cfm is gone so they must have used that page to let people know that we've been hacked. Get Dirk and the others! This is an emergency!

[MadBee 1]

this is getting sad

[fledder200 5]

Kids

[City2TheMax 3]

This has been on more sites than just this one though.

[Medvednic 0]

It is the second time in about 7 days, at least no racist sayings this time.

they piss me off, admins should do something about them.

btw, their picture is cool (the skeleton horseman)...

[mightygoose 92]

it seems to be a general server info packet sploit, originating from the suikast team, as claimed. there forum is located at www.system-defacers.org,  it does not seem that they are trying to steal any passwords just  want to sploit the vuln and call them selves teh haxxors..

at least one of their members gets his sploits from http://www.milw0rm.com/    i know this buy snooping around on their boards... will let you know when they update about ST if it was even them... no sign of a claim yet...

[Barbarossa 51]

Maybe it is just me, but i think it is very suspicious that BOTH sporeum and ST were affected by this. Seems to me like a PO'd member with some hacking skills...

Regardless, these morons obviously don't have much to do with their time if they are focusing on hacking simulation gaming sites.

Barbarossa