Nadj website

[DeckstarDeluxe]

Just sent a message to John and they are aware of the issue and are working to resolve .

[Cowlinn]

Seems like it's up and running again now.

[Peter Lockwood]

it was hacked at 10 30 ish paul as now uploaded the back up

[pdarnett]

Looks like its a dictionary based password attack, we've dealt with it now and no-ones hosted sites have been affected and the website is back up safe and sound, good advice above about having backups of your websites, this didn't just happen to us as this is an automated attack coming from an African ISP, the list gets bigger here http://www.zone-h.com/archive/notifier=Xrapt0r

We've been doing the due diligence since 10:29am this morning to block suspicious requests to the site and we've reset every single admin level password just in case, those of you that host with us (or with anyone) that have "password" or their own name as their password may want to change it as this attack is worldwide on thousands of web hosts .

[Marc J]

We've been doing the due diligence since 10:29am this morning to block suspicious requests to the site...

With that in mind, I highly recommend you take a look at www.cloudflare.net. I'm testing it out on a few sites at the moment and my initial thoughts are that it is very good and does what it claims, very well.

Basically, you route your DNS through their system and anyone trying to access from a suspicious IP (checked against realtime blacklists from thing like Project Honeypot) will be challenged. A bonus is that all your static content is cached on CloudFlare's global CDN (content delivery network) and Javascript is auto-minified, so visitors see an improvement in site loading times and you save on bandwidth There's a bunch of other benefits...check it out!

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[Marc J]

no-ones hosted sites have been affected

Are you sure?

[pdarnett]

Chris Burfords site was a brand new install of joomla with all default passwords etc, and thats now sorted..