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 The Crunchenstein Project
 
 4/14/2008 11:23:28 PM
User is offlineTransitMan
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The Crunchenstein Project
 (United States)
It is with great sadness to report to some of you old-timers that the Crunchenstein Project Forums have been taken off-line, due to hackers.
There's a lot of rich history there, and a lot of it is from you old-timers here at TSWB.

While conversations have begun in an attempt to recover the complete forum, intact, there is also a real possibility it is also gone altogether. We are in the beginnings of this, and I will attempt to keep you all updated as it unfolds.

But for now, I wanted those who helped support the project and who kept tabs from time to time to know what was going on.

Respectfully
TransitMan
Director Crunchenstein Project
 4/14/2008 11:29:02 PM
User is offlineKinguni
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Re: The Crunchenstein Project
 (Canada)
Thanks for passing on the information Dan. A lot of history on the message board there. I was still checking it out regularly. It wasn't getting many visits of late.

Sad that people do these things.
 4/15/2008 3:29:58 AM
User is offlineanonymous
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Re: The Crunchenstein Project
 (N/A) Modified By anonymous on 4/15/2008 5:50:38 AM)

Gotta check some places, like Google -- some really old stuff is archived but no longer exists.

And seems to me there are a couple of history/archive sites that got almost everything ever on the web, saved.
 4/15/2008 3:37:40 AM
User is offlineJack Shaftoe
262 posts
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Re: The Crunchenstein Project
 (United States)
Might want to take a look at the archive, they crawl pages and maintain history of them.

http://www.archive.org/index.php
"I think we're on the verge of a major climate shift. The government has to start making long term preparations now."
"Jack, all you have is a theory."
"Well then give me the mainframe and let me prove it!!!"
 4/15/2008 10:35:54 AM
User is offlineKinguni
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Re: The Crunchenstein Project
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Every page there required login so crawlers wouldn't have picked up a thing.
 4/15/2008 10:48:53 AM
User is offlineJack Shaftoe
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Re: The Crunchenstein Project
 (United States) Modified By Jack Shaftoe on 4/15/2008 12:53:43 PM)
"We're sorry, access to http://www.crunchenstein.net has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt."


FAQ #3: I don't want my site's pages in the archive. How do I remove them?

By installing a robots.txt file on your web server, you can exclude your site from being archived, as well as block access to them on the archive. For information, see our FAQ about removing documents.


Unfortunate...
"I think we're on the verge of a major climate shift. The government has to start making long term preparations now."
"Jack, all you have is a theory."
"Well then give me the mainframe and let me prove it!!!"
 4/15/2008 11:12:45 AM
Online now...Xaak
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Re: The Crunchenstein Project
 (United States)

That sucks.

Isn't Edward the site admin?  If so, he should have made periodic backups of the forum database, so if you can determine when it happened, it should be fairly easy to restore to a point before that.

Gary
You can't fix dead.
 4/15/2008 12:33:47 PM
User is offlineCamelot One
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Re: The Crunchenstein Project
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Was this just some stupid punks with nothing better to do, or was there some reason this particular site was hacked? Just seems stupid.
 4/15/2008 2:09:50 PM
User is offlineKinguni
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Re: The Crunchenstein Project
 (Canada) Modified By Kinguni on 4/15/2008 4:10:09 PM)
 Camelot One wrote
Was this just some stupid punks with nothing better to do, or was there some reason this particular site was hacked? Just seems stupid.


I'd bet on the former.
 4/17/2008 7:19:28 AM
User is offlineBill48045
11 posts


Re: The Crunchenstein Project
 (N/A)

The site was hacked using PHP/MySQL injection flaws in the XMB forum software after first cracking Insuw's password.  From my reading of various security forums, the net crawls with sleazeballs who do this for kicks, or worse.

All the files are safe, and have been recovered from backup.  During the recovery process, the forum was restored, and within minutes, the cracker was back at it.  The forum was wiped again, all admin passwords changed as well as the database password. 

 4/17/2008 7:25:44 AM
User is offlineKinguni
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Re: The Crunchenstein Project
 (Canada)
Someone is persistent.
 4/17/2008 6:38:11 PM
User is offlineCamelot One
97 posts
Website
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Re: The Crunchenstein Project
 (N/A)
Wonder if its the same person who keeps taking BBR down.
 4/17/2008 7:04:18 PM
User is offlineMikeC
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Re: The Crunchenstein Project
 (N/A)
Doubtful it's a person, bots are doing most of the dirty work now days.
 4/17/2008 9:15:08 PM
Online now...Xaak
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Re: The Crunchenstein Project
 (United States)
True but a person (or persons) controls the botnet.   It is an odd coincidence that both BBR and the crunchy forum got attacked the same week.
Gary
You can't fix dead.
 5/5/2008 10:23:49 PM
User is offlineTransitMan
29 posts




Re: The Crunchenstein Project
 (United States)
True that is. The Crunchy forum is back up and running again, with the latest upgrade of the forum software. So life is once again good with the Crunchestein forum.
 5/6/2008 1:46:56 AM
User is offlineKinguni
2085 posts
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Re: The Crunchenstein Project
 (Canada)
Cool. Looks like it's over-secured though.
 5/7/2008 6:13:26 AM
Online now...Xaak
1053 posts
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Re: The Crunchenstein Project
 (United States)
I'd say it's perfect security, you simply can't get in
Gary
You can't fix dead.
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