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Trond Saetre September 26th, 2009 12:24 PM

Trouble with UWOL Challenge website?
 
It seems like our uwol website might be hacked or something.
When I tried to view the uwolchallenge site a few minutes ago, I got this message:

[[TriCk AKA Saywhat? HaS ArRiVeD // TeaMp0isoN]]


(I have sent an email to Meryem about this too)

Kevin Railsback September 26th, 2009 12:41 PM

All the films etc are intact. It's just some idiot hacked into the program Mat uses for the shell of the site.
Hopefully they have an updated version that is more secure.

Trond Saetre September 26th, 2009 12:49 PM

Good the films are untouched.

Kevin Railsback September 26th, 2009 01:35 PM

Yep, just some idiot that found a backdoor into the front end is all.
Hopefully Mat can sort it out in short order.

Mat Thompson September 28th, 2009 03:46 AM

Hi guys
Just got back after the weekend to this lovely surprise! - What idiots these people are huh. - Hopefully the database of news will be intact :-/ …..what a pain!

Kevin Railsback September 28th, 2009 05:09 AM

I had the same problem with a Iowa film board I run. Constantly bombarded by hackers. Thankfully they closed some of the backdoors and things quieted down a bit.

Hope they didn't muck up a lot of stuff for you Mat. I know you put in a ton of hours to get the site to where it is today.

Too bad we couldn't track them down. I'd open up a can of Yeti Whoop-Ass on them! :)

Kevin Railsback September 28th, 2009 09:31 PM

Mat's got the site up and running again.
He was up till 1:00AM his time working on things on his end!

Trond Saetre September 29th, 2009 09:06 AM

Well done, Mat!
Too bad it wasn't possible to find out who it was.
Hopefully it never happens again.

Mike Sims September 29th, 2009 09:31 AM

Way to go, Mat. Thank-you!

Meryem Ersoz September 29th, 2009 12:30 PM

those boys are the best...got through the entire uwol crisis while i was hanging out on a film set.

as always, huge props to the boys, who keep the UWOL trains running on time!


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