Website back online

By faker mapper·
Hey there,

as you might have noticed we had a security breach on our website yesterday. We're still evaluating how it could happen and how it did happen exactly, but for now the website is back online with a backup from yesterday afternoon - and we are hoping that it won't happen again.

To be bluntly honest, it's not a quiet big achievment to attack a website that is using a fairly old version of an open source CMS, we know it's vulnerable but we don't have the capacities to change that situation right now. For the sake of keeping this great community alive, please don't try to hack us as a proof of concept, we know it might be possible for a skilled hacker (or with the right exploit), just contact us and we'll try our best to fix the vulnerabilites.

Furthermore I want to announce that we're looking for a new website coder/programmer, because as you might have noticed m0ver is quite busy lately and doesn't have much more time left to spend for XJ. The new design isn't making much progress (should be released for everyone by now) and we'd simply need a full-time coder (or as close as it gets to that) to take care of the whole website (updating e107 on a regular base, implementing the new design, fixing and finishing various other scripts). If you want and think you could help us, and fit to the following profile, please message me on a platform of your choice (PM, IRC, Steam):

You have....
- experience in handling PHP/SQL and programming various dynamic scripts
- knowledge about the e107 CMS
- worked on bigger websites before
- some spare time left to spend for XJ and are active,flexible and would like to work in the XJ admin team

I'm looking forward to see your applications.

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04/05/2011 13:17:00

T_T

04/05/2011 13:28:00

spare * :P

04/05/2011 13:29:00

where is chatbox? =\

04/05/2011 13:33:00

nice work :)

04/05/2011 13:35:00

I'm glad too see that this site is working again! :-)

04/05/2011 13:41:00

"just contact us and we'll try our best to fix the vulnerabilites." One word is enough - e107. I know it's very difficult to change and would take so much time, but even Wordpress could offer safer and faster CMS. Sad but true. Glad you got site back!

04/05/2011 13:43:00

Once we got a new coder, he is free to play with different CMS like VBB, WBB or Wordpress ofc, but it's not quite easy to implement the whole design into them as well. Testserver is already set up, too bad m0ver started to work when that happend and didn't find time to make some tests there :( I would love to see XJ on VBB some day.

04/05/2011 14:11:00

gl everyone applying :)

04/05/2011 14:23:00

btw, m0ver is from croatia not from serbia :-)

04/05/2011 14:26:00

Is there payment ?

04/05/2011 14:55:00

why payment? its a voluntary community. which is on a way to get support from banners or paypal to pay the server bills.

04/05/2011 15:34:00

Is there a chance to know who the fuck did this?

04/05/2011 15:38:00

I want to provide some help but sadly not good at php&SQL :(

04/05/2011 16:36:00

Yes, dEMolite is right, we don't gain much money from ads and the donations, the little we get is basically used for paying the bills and paying a little prize for winners here and there. Hence little payments here and there would be possible (for excellent work), maybe a mouse or other little hardware stuff at times, but we can't afford to pay 1000€ for a coder of course.

04/05/2011 16:59:00

btw faker most people want to pay if you want to do something few people there who do it for Free ...

04/05/2011 17:17:00

./\ .|| wat

04/05/2011 17:50:00

Seriously WAT? gpower, google translator would beat you. Anyone who fills the requirements would get a great deal of future experience if he/she decided to help the community. But I can't help to think that anyone with the knowledge of all these would have either a job or is studying such things. Making this job a bit too big just to do it alone.

04/05/2011 18:49:00

I really hope that you'll find the best protection for XJ! [size=1] If not, please the hacker send me the new fps-death and slow-mo detection, ty [/size]

04/05/2011 21:51:00

100% secure

04/05/2011 23:56:00

Unfortunately migrating to another CMS would really require a lot of work, the design would be the easiest part, the real trouble would be migrating the whole database to a completely new data storage structure. I could help, but at the moment i don't even have time for upgrading the Brazilian national community website.

07/05/2011 17:19:00

xj will die some day. And you will have a real life ;)

21/05/2011 10:46:00

It's actually not hard to migrate the databases.. even e107 v0.8 has a plugin for fitting e107 databases for other CMS'.