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Technical Support / Re: Weird Message
« Last post by Xepher on August 30, 2022, 07:45:57 pm »
So... yeah. First off, sorry about that. But over the past few days, the traffic to your site shot through the roof starting about 6 days ago. Unfortunately I was out of town for the last 5 and didn't get to look into it until last night, and was planning to take a longer look at it after work today. Long story short, I think your wordpress install was under heavy attack. There were hundreds of gigabytes of traffic going to a few dozen eastern european and russian IPs, and all of those were continually sending dozens of comments and login attempts every minute. Over a full terabyte of traffic already went to your site before I locked it down. I hope by turning it off for a day or so, it'll kick it out of the botnet's list of targets and maybe the problem will be resolved.

I'm emailing you for further discussion.
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Technical Support / Weird Message
« Last post by danieljswan on August 30, 2022, 06:55:39 pm »
Hi Xepher:

When I tried to access my site earlier I was greeted with a weird message that read:
For security, this account has been disabled. If this is your site, please contact the xepher.net administrator to have your account unlocked.

find enclosed a screenshot I took and any help to get this resolved would be great

thanks

Daniel Swan
Through Daniel's Lens

(http://throughdanielslens.xepher.net/)
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Announcements / Due to Upgrade, Password Updates Required Soon
« Last post by Xepher on October 24, 2021, 09:28:14 pm »
Starting next week (November 1st) there will be an upgrade to some of the core system software on the server. This will obsolete old passwords (set before around 2008) which are stored using weaker md5 hashes. Support for those is going away in the cryptography library used by service pieces of software (including SFTP.) Everyone who hasn't changed their password in the past few years will need to do so, or potentially be locked out of some services until they do.

To change your password, go to https://xepher.net/user-services/ and login with your old/current password, then change it. Note that if you use MySQL for things like wordpress, this will change your database password as well, so you may need to update your wordpress (or other software) configs. For wordpress, that typically just means editing wp-config.php. This would also be a good time to make sure that file is secure (it does contain your password after all) so click the properties for that file and set the permissions so ONLY user (you) have read/write access (for you nerd types, "chmod 600 wp-config.php".) Remove the access from group and other/world so no one else can view it. You should do this for any other web software you may be using... any file where you have your own password stored.

If you have any questions or problems, just let me know!
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Technical Support / Re: Updating with a Windows machine
« Last post by tmazanec1 on September 07, 2021, 09:45:12 am »
Checked on iPhone and it is changed.
Guess my HP hasn't caught on yet...
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Technical Support / Re: Updating with a Windows machine
« Last post by tmazanec1 on September 07, 2021, 08:48:39 am »
I managed to change it, but I am trying to change it again.
When I go to what should be the new page via google, I still get the old page on my screen, but when I click the page on SCP I get the new one.
What is wrong?
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General Chat / Re: January 2009 and March 2019
« Last post by Xepher on August 28, 2021, 11:30:23 am »
I've no real idea.... that was years ago. My guess is that those are probably periods where I was upgrading software or changing the logging system and something glitched. I've done my best to preserve old data, but sometimes that just fails and new systems miss a step. Sorry.
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General Chat / January 2009 and March 2019
« Last post by tmazanec1 on August 23, 2021, 06:53:16 am »
I finally got around to looking at my statistics. In a typical month I get a hundred-bippity-bip unique visitors (I know my website is not google.com, so I am not disappointed). Sometimes (I guess when I post a link on a forum or something) I get significantly more.
But in those two months I got bubkis. A line of goose eggs.
What happened?
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Technical Support / Re: Updating with a Windows machine
« Last post by Xepher on August 19, 2021, 01:43:02 am »
I've resent them. It should be coming from a xepher.net address, so check your spam folder.
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Technical Support / Re: Updating with a Windows machine
« Last post by tmazanec1 on August 18, 2021, 08:30:28 am »
Or would it be better to PM me?
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Technical Support / Re: Updating with a Windows machine
« Last post by tmazanec1 on August 17, 2021, 11:06:19 am »
I'm sorry, either it got lost in cyberspace or I accidentally deleted it.
Could you resend?
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