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Post Sat Feb 06, 2010 11:43 pm

Brewology Back Online

Ok, first of all, sorry for the downtime. We've been hard at work locking down the website for security flaws and doubling our efforts to prevent attacks in the future. That said, we were seemingly targeted maliciously by a hacker. At this time, we have absolutely no reason to assume it was any member from the site here, so there's no reason to point fingers, but there is a security measure that should be reiterated. Everyone should change their passwords for the time being. It is believed that passwords should still have remained secure through this episode but it's best to be safe and make sure that your account is secure to the best of your knowledge.

All that aside, welcome back to the Brew! We will soon launch a new section of the forum so that people can post news articles that they come across so that the staff can place them on the front page. That way, one of our weaker components of the site will be aided by the pulling together of our community here at the Brew rather than select few people that are falling behind, myself included. So keep your eyes peeled ;)

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Post Sun Feb 07, 2010 3:10 am

Glad to see the brew back. Maybe I'll jump on board and help with some iPhone news since I'm pretty much on top of that stuff.
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Post Sun Feb 07, 2010 3:27 am

yea glad its back aswell, hope some of the other users show their face. lol Brent remember 3G and 2G does apply for ipods hehe lol.
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Post Sun Feb 07, 2010 3:32 am

I said iPhone news, not can't afford an iPhone news... Jk. A lot of stuff simply isn't even applicable to iPods.
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Post Sun Feb 07, 2010 5:13 am

brentbizzle wrote:Maybe I'll jump on board and help with some iPhone news since I'm pretty much on top of that stuff.


On that note, anyone that had news posting privileges has had them revoked lol. This was a security measure and things will return to "normal" in time. Most things that are effected by the changes we've made are not noticeable by the average member and won't effect anybody's normal routine though.

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Post Sun Feb 07, 2010 6:52 am

Ya! the brews finally here again..
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Post Sun Feb 07, 2010 8:14 am

Glad to have it back, maybe a warning next time? :P
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Post Sun Feb 07, 2010 10:15 am

AdventWolf wrote:Glad to have it back, maybe a warning next time? :P

Nik rarely gives warnings :P
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Post Sun Feb 07, 2010 12:31 pm

The site was down for so long I thought I got banned!
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Post Sun Feb 07, 2010 12:44 pm

I was fearing the end of it.

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Post Sun Feb 07, 2010 1:50 pm

It was strange, because a couple of days ago as I was about access the site, I get a huge note that said "It Works!!"
and I'm like wtf? Lol.
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Post Sun Feb 07, 2010 2:23 pm

Mailas G wrote:
AdventWolf wrote:Glad to have it back, maybe a warning next time? :P

Nik rarely gives warnings :P


Yeah, next time Nik will warn everyone before a hacker topples the site. Good thinking.

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Post Sun Feb 07, 2010 2:23 pm

well it about Friggin time lol I am just happy to be back
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Post Sun Feb 07, 2010 2:26 pm

TheTyler0013 wrote:well it about Friggin time lol I am just happy to be back


We could have gone live at any moment but we didn't want to. We needed to make sure everything was secure. Once we were confident that we'd be safe and without data loss we opened the doors of the Brewery. We'd fixed things once and then the site went down again in the same fashion within a day so we took our time to make sure everything was just right.

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Post Sun Feb 07, 2010 5:03 pm

DPM, I'd like to talk to you about these apparent 'hackings.'
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