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Jack Lawman · 10-06-2004, 08:33 PM

From Parallax Bill's site: Parallax's Curio and Relic Firearms Forums

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Here's the deal. We have over the past several months had several attempts to hack the site. While they have not been successful there were some security deficiencies that had to be addressed. Over the past month we have massively upgraded our security features and several Microsoft service packs that protect the database and our server. One of these upgrades corrupted a portion of our database a couple of weeks ago and we had to reload from a back up position from 24 hours earlier-thus some of the pictures you guys uploaded did not show. Yesterday we undertook another security update on a service pack that has taken longer then we expected and when finished has to be tuned to allow some of the content that we do. It is a massive undertaking when 5.5 million topics and entries have to be reuploaded and then adjusted so the security settings don't interfere with what we want. Its sort of a paradox. We want to be as secure as possible yet the exact same information that everybody wants makes that difficult i.e.: uploading information to a server like pictures, links and so forth. So its a tough job and we apologize for the inconvenience but its a necessary evil we have to maintain. As the sophistication of the computer hackers and evil doers grows so must the fixes which take longer for use to be one step ahead. We are working as fast as our fingers can go and should be back up for business as usual very soon.

(Vic Thomas)
Owner-operator Gunboards.com and
Michigan Historical Collectables
<hr /></blockquote>Jack

10-06-2004, 08:33 PM	#12
Jack Lawman User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Near NYC Posts: 428 Thanks: 30 Thanked 64 Times in 37 Posts	From Parallax Bill's site: Parallax's Curio and Relic Firearms Forums </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva"> Here's the deal. We have over the past several months had several attempts to hack the site. While they have not been successful there were some security deficiencies that had to be addressed. Over the past month we have massively upgraded our security features and several Microsoft service packs that protect the database and our server. One of these upgrades corrupted a portion of our database a couple of weeks ago and we had to reload from a back up position from 24 hours earlier-thus some of the pictures you guys uploaded did not show. Yesterday we undertook another security update on a service pack that has taken longer then we expected and when finished has to be tuned to allow some of the content that we do. It is a massive undertaking when 5.5 million topics and entries have to be reuploaded and then adjusted so the security settings don't interfere with what we want. Its sort of a paradox. We want to be as secure as possible yet the exact same information that everybody wants makes that difficult i.e.: uploading information to a server like pictures, links and so forth. So its a tough job and we apologize for the inconvenience but its a necessary evil we have to maintain. As the sophistication of the computer hackers and evil doers grows so must the fixes which take longer for use to be one step ahead. We are working as fast as our fingers can go and should be back up for business as usual very soon. (Vic Thomas) Owner-operator Gunboards.com and Michigan Historical Collectables </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Jack __________________ Why do you guys hate black circles so much?