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Looks like our avatars are MIA
– BorgClown, 2009-05-11 at 05:18:27 (7 comments)

	On 2009-05-11 at 05:19:04, BorgClown wrote... I went to DNr and all I got was this Picture avatar =(
	On 2009-05-11 at 05:19:33, BorgClown wrote... See you later!
	On 2009-05-11 at 08:53:10, Lee J Haywood wrote... This was the result of a site defacement attempt, and was possible because the images are easiest to overwrite due to the permissions granted to allow uploads. http://status.easyspace.com/ None of the site's code was affected by the attack, which was a lame scripted thing anyway. The images are easy to restore, but I've also lost a bunch of logs for non-DNR stuff that I'd like to have kept.
	On 2009-05-12 at 01:23:42, BorgClown wrote... Oh. I took a screenshot just to mess with you, thought it was an image library issue like the last time. The hosting page mentioned restoring backups, maybe you could get your logs from there. It's simultaneously bad that your site was messed with, and good that it endured it so well.
	On 2009-05-12 at 01:52:53, BorgClown wrote... There, a better avatar =)
	On 2009-05-13 at 08:30:14, Lee J Haywood wrote... Well the problem is still there, in the sense that PHP actually requires a writeable directory and the only change I can make is to store the images in the database which means more work. I'm not happy with the explanation that the hack was done through 3rd party software - the only thing I use is the reCAPTCHA library, which is trivial. The logs get appended to all the time, so a restore would regress them.
	On 2009-05-14 at 03:52:47, BorgClown wrote... I thought it was a shotgun attack, who in his five senses would want to deface a website with so little audience? I guess some script kiddies only care about quantity, not quality.