To move forward and to celebrate our 1 year anniversary, in the upcoming months the meanwhile outdated PHPNuke CMS architecture will be upgraded to the current top of the line CMS framework Drupal.
Of course I plan to make the transition as smoothly as possible. Stay tuned for exciting new possibilities!
UPDATE 4:
The old infrastructure was unfortunateley hacked yet again on June 22nd 2007 while I was not available for a couple of days. I'm really sorry for the extended downtime due to this badly (or from the hackers' point of view - good) timing. If you notice any downtimes please check again regularly, like you did just now.
Anyhow, the site has been reverted with no data lost whilst patching the newly found loophole.
To move forward and to celebrate our 1 year anniversary, in the upcoming months the meanwhile outdated PHPNuke CMS architecture will be upgraded to the current top of the line CMS framework Drupal.
Of course I plan to make the transition as smoothly as possible. Stay tuned for exciting new possibilities!
UPDATE 4:
The old infrastructure was unfortunateley
hacked yet again on June 22nd 2007 while I was not available for a couple of
days. I'm really sorry for the extended downtime due to this badly (or
from the hackers' point of view - good) timing. If you notice any
downtimes please check again regularly, like you did just now.
Anyhow, the site has been reverted with no data lost whilst patching the newly found loophole.
UPDATE 3:
In an isolated event of unknown error my host provider dropped every
single database table of this very site sometime between April 5th and
April 6th. For about 24 hours this site site could do nothing but
return empty pages.
Meanwhile I have reinstated the database backup
from April 5th. I'm terribly sorry for all lost data which might have been
created between this backup and the crash on April 6th and for the inconvenient downtime. Please re-enter all data
which you have lost. Thank you!
I still wish everyone a happy easter holiday!
UPDATE 2:
After
review I learned we have been hacked at least twice. Once today and
once over a couple of days in April 2006. The hacker from April even
left his name but I won't do the honors to mention him. Needles to say,
this hack didn't restrain us in any way.
Todays hacker used the avatar upload feature to upload malicious code.
I
removed all traces and closed both loopholes. Unfortunately this means
for the time being, avatar uploading is disabled. However, since so few
of you, actually used this feature (one did!) , it probably won't be
missed much. I'd rather invest my spare free time in the planed major
upgrade instead of going for a clean fix with this avatar security
problem.
Overall, I feel humbled by all this attention. :)
UPDATE 1:
Today, 01/05/2007 this site was
returning only empty pages for a few hours due to a technical fluke in
the GoogleTap component. We have clearly been hacked.
I just
reverted this site back to the state it had yesterday night. The
database seems fine so I saw no need to revert our data. Thus no data
was lost. I'll monitor this.
Forunately, as already announced my
plans for 2007 are to upgrade this site to a better CMS system. The
then gained higher security niveau is obviously very much needed. This
upgrade will fall behind the 1st anniversary but will definitely happen
before we turn two. :)
So I'll take a quick look into the hack which got through to us and close whatever loophole was used.
Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for hanging in there!