Since early Saturday morning all of the sites hosted by NB Development, that's, nbdev.co.uk, showcase.nbdev.co.uk, techienick.com, cs-listings.com, and some others went silent.
At about 2pm BST I found out that the server has been taken offline due to a phishing attack and penetration on the server. Now we have no idea how this happened, something to do with an IE backdoor and recycle bin being compromised.
As soon as I found out about it, I redirected DNS to a holding page, just so you know what was going on.
Quite a simple notice, bit at least you were informed.
As of 7pm BST, all of the NB Development sites are back up, and working again. There will be a little lag as Rick, the server guy, is still working on restoring the other sites hosted on our VPS.
All I can say is sorry. Still don't know how it happened, I've checked all of my other servers and none are compromised.
Athena Beta 2 is now accessible, Beta 3 should be expected in November, after CSDC, I'll see you there if your going.
Posted
Oct 02 2007, 10:05 PM
by
Nick