miscellaneous

Anybody happen to see this over on Bots Unauthorized?

For those that didn't it seems somebody hacked into Ender's account and made a small post. Upon checking the site a few hours later it was deleted, presumably by Ender. A quick google search and it would appear the source of this hack is a 'Turkish hack team' who have made largely superficial changes to a number of websites under the pseudonym SaMuRa! // ZoRRoKiN.

I found an article on them here: http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/may/26/hack-engineered-seas/

Instead, the page now links to a separate site that displays a picture of a robotic-looking man, who we assume to be "SaMuRa!", and plays the song "If I Was You (OMG)" by Far East Movement.

Awesome, I mean not cool, I mean awesome, man I don't know, it's cool but not cool at the same time :/

The good news is that the vulnerabilities of my old site they exploited to do this don't exist on bots4. BU was built many years ago and I'm a better programmer now than I was then.

The other good news is that this wasn't a targeted attack and they didn't even visit the bots4 website as far as I can tell. They found BU randomly from a Google search.

The bad news is that I didn't patch the vulnerabilities. I've really been dragging my heels on keeping BU updated and wanted to avoid being tasked with maintaining both the game and the fansite. Its architecture is quite clunky compared to what I'm working with now and it's difficult to update. We'll see how this plays out though...