Cyber terrorism?

[skiur]

I guess AZ is a high profile target, gets taken out a lot!

 

[BenedictGomez]

I guess AZ is a high profile target, gets taken out a lot!

It's probably not difficult hacking, as in my mind AZ is run on 1998 web technology. Looks like about 2 weeks of posting was lost.

 

[Nick]

Yeah, the last restore we had was June 20th. So unfortunately yes we did lose some posting history.

But; BenedictGomez is right, the site is running Vbulletin 4.2.x which it has been for 8+ years. It is running long in the tooth. I have to do PHP upgrades but the forum isn't compatible with it as it stands but the front end (wordpress) is. It's tricky to keep everything up nowadays, at some point soon I will need to make a decision on moving to a new platform (maybe xenforo). That's still some time away but, you know, in the next couple years.

 

[kancamagus]

Have you considered Discourse? I frequent two forums that were previously running vBulletin 3.x and 4.x respectively until they upgraded to Discourse after shopping around for various upgrade options for several years. Note: Discourse is completely separate from the Discord app.

 

[Nick]

I haven't yet. I was looking at xenforo, and I've heard of discourse. Thanks for the recommendation, I will check into it. Vbulletin definitely has limits on how much longer it will run for. Even the newest version (vb5) is getting long in the tooth.

 

[Killingtime]

Ok great. I thought this website was joining On The Snow to the graveyard of digital media.

 

[cdskier]

It's probably not difficult hacking, as in my mind AZ is run on 1998 web technology.

Well...it is a tiny bit more up to date than that!

 

[Cobbold]

Well...it is a tiny bit more up to date than that!

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Glad you guys are back

 

[jimmywilson69]

too bad we didn't lose 3 or so months of useless bickering about COVID-19

 

[Not Sure]

First AZ now Twitter

 

[VTKilarney]

First AZ now Twitter

Maybe Nick bought Twitter.

 

[ScottySkis]

Maybe Nick bought Twitter.

If has no time to be on AZ here except after a week of silence I highly doubt that Twitter or any smart business would sell any business to him

 

[BenedictGomez]

Maybe Nick bought Twitter.

I CANNOT flipping believe TWTR is only down 1% today.

This is a massive breach, and I dont believe people understand just how serious this is. I bought some short-dated puts today, which I very, very, very rarely do, simply on the belief that once people have time to really ponder this more (and analyts get off their azzes & release some notes), especially during a very sensitive economic time, and right ahead of a bitter election, more PMs are going to say, "**** this risk, I'm out" even if they love TWTR. We'll see if I'm right.

If has no time to be on AZ here except after a week of silence I highly doubt that Twitter or any smart business would sell any business to him

Shots fired!

 

[machski]

Why? The markets are behaving so rationally and such, even with massive unemployment and a pandemic. So why should one company tank because of a little cyber crash on their part? LOL!

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[Glenn]

too bad we didn't lose 3 or so months of useless bickering about COVID-19

:lol: