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Palomar

Member

From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: Hit by a hacker?

*Trying to access New Mars results in blank white screen with 3 words in upper left-hand corner:  "Jealous Fingers Ownz."

Checked boards via New Mars site earlier today (1-1/2 hours ago)...was fine then.  Accessed boards now via Mars Society web page.

Anyway, thought the mods should know.  Probably no big deal, but...

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

Josh Cryer

Moderator

Registered: 2001-09-29

Posts: 3,830

Re: Hit by a hacker?

Adrian must've fixed it, I didn't see it. Ah well. Thanks for the heads up.

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Some useful links while MER are active. [url=http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html]Offical site[/url] [url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html]NASA TV[/url] [url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/]JPL MER2004[/url] [url=http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html]Text feed[/url]
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The amount of solar radiation reaching the surface of the earth totals some 3.9 million exajoules a year.

Adrian

Moderator

From: London, United Kingdom

Registered: 2001-09-04

Posts: 642

Website

Re: Hit by a hacker?

Yup. Also, I weeded out all the comment spam and introduced mandatory commenter registration, which should save me a fair amount of time in the future.

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Editor of [url=http://www.newmars.com]New Mars[/url]

Adrian

Moderator

From: London, United Kingdom

Registered: 2001-09-04

Posts: 642

Website

Re: Hit by a hacker?

The website was hacked again today. The hackers were able to do this because of a vulnerability in the Ikonboard forum software - I have since patched this vulnerability and that should now be the end of any further hacks.

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Editor of [url=http://www.newmars.com]New Mars[/url]

Josh Cryer

Moderator

Registered: 2001-09-29

Posts: 3,830

Re: Hit by a hacker?

I have missed every single hack that has ever occured to New Mars.

Ah well. Adrian is so quick at fixing 'em I guess that's a good thing.

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Some useful links while MER are active. [url=http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html]Offical site[/url] [url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html]NASA TV[/url] [url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/]JPL MER2004[/url] [url=http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html]Text feed[/url]
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The amount of solar radiation reaching the surface of the earth totals some 3.9 million exajoules a year.