Hackers on this site

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Say... do you know that when you try to get onto the start page you get a message in turkish with pictures of army men and waving flags?

Honestly, who hacks a guinea pig forum?!

Maybe this is why the site has been so slow tonight?
 
I just saw that too and have pm'd Furryfriends. It wouldn't let me go to start a new thread without giving me the hack page.
 
thanks for the notification..i thought it was weird...but didn't think it would be something harmful! hope the forum is saved in time
 
I thought something was weird... it kept asking me to sign in everytime i moved to a different page! Think I'll change my password!
 
I have just seen the hacked front page too.

Does this mean our PCs are under threat?
 
thanks, I have just done that.

I had to close my tabs after seeing the hacking page but now I can't get back into my sainsbury's account... mallethead
 
oh! how strange?!
sorry can't be of any help then! hope its just a glitch! xx
 
weird...

why would a turkish armed group want to recruit from TGPF and hack into its forum?
 
could be a number of reasons, could be that they see flaws in the system so abuse it just to show the admin team those flaws so they can sort them out...
OR could be so they can hack into the complete system to take over completely thus getting a free site? plus contact details of every member... or just being a pain in the back side and destroying forums just because they can?
oh I'm going to stop thinking.. I don't like any of this!
 
if you have firewall and an anti virus protection program, you 'should' be ok, as they would need to access your comp to hack into it, and if you have the relevant security they 'shouldn't' be able to...
 
Lix, you seem to know your stuff... Am I safe on a mac if I haven't typed in my comp password to download anything? Someone told me that once...
 
My mum has a mac, but tbh I'm not too good with macs, but apparently they are much easier to care for,
I'm not much help though as can't tell you anything as I don't know.. sorry!
I only know about pc's as I have had so many problems in the past and had no money to call in the professionals so had to research it myself to sort the problem lol.
Best advice is not to allow any new programs or downloads for tonight, or at least while on this forum, just to be on the safe side.
 
Since I got a virus of 'pretend Lisa' on FB, I ALWAYS say NO to new downloads (then get told off by the OH cos my lappy's not up-to-date... a small price to pay).
 
I have found out some information.

I would strongly advice people to stay off the guinea pig forum, until they have been notified the hackers are gone.
 
Everytime some one logs in the hackers get your IP address and can easily use this to gain access to your pc. STAY AWAY from the forum until we receive news it's ok!

We have had a site hijacked before by a similar group and they just do it for fun and to raise the profile of their hacking skills, that's all!

They are just a group of hackers so stay away! Hopefully admin can let everyone know when the site is up and running again xx
 
No really they can't.

Two things you need to do:

Make sure that you have a good quality, up to date security program. There are free ones but personally I always buy one of the big-name ones as they've got more to lose if they stuff it up.

Do not use the same password everywhere. For things that matter such as your bank account, paypal and email have a unique password with at least some numbers of symbols in. If you are particularly concerned set up an email account just for forums and buying things on line and keep your main one for secure stuff such as paypal.

Practical fishkeeping forum got hacked recently and they got everyone's user name, email address and password - anyone using the same ones for this forum and anything important - paypal was a particular example would have been at risk.

These are basic things that everyone should know. Mind you everyone should know that you shouldn't put anything on a forum that you wouldn't yell across a crowded room with your boss in it but judging by some of the recent posts. . . .

Paula
 
PHEW! I have different bank / paypal etc passwords to forums so they can use my password here for forums but that's it.

Gosh worried there!
 
is there no way an email can be sent out to all members just to notify them of this?
 
This is what my husband does for a living (network / computer security and ethical hacking) and he says that actually they can have accessed your passwords IF you logged in at the site. I was asked to log in and I am not normally asked. I did so therefore they will have that password and could have retrieved other passwrords that are stored as cookies - apparently anyone using internet explorer is more at risk that anyone using firefox or chrome.

I am scanning my machine and am going to change passwords later when I know nothing is on my machine. It's apparently unlikely anything is on my machine as we use Kapersky 2010 but he said to check just incase...
 
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