CAG Defacing/Hacking News & Updates

blueshinra · Jan 20, 2016

Thanks, John! Hope you're resting well for now

slowdive21 · Jan 20, 2016

The formatting is messed up on Firefox and chrome. White pages, with blue links.

I've added a screen print to show what I am seeing. I added a few links b/c I am not sure which one will work:

http://i.imgur.com/jhxHqyF.jpg

View post on imgur.com

Draekon · Jan 20, 2016

Well, I was going to screenshot what I see in Firefox (as well as Chrome after checking), but it looks like slowdive did it for me. Makes topics pretty unreadable and I don't need to be signed in to get this. I tested to make sure any addons weren't causing this by turning them all off in Firefox.

Off to shovel snow in the mean time I guess.

inm8num2 · Jan 20, 2016

slowdive21 said:
The formatting is messed up on Firefox and chrome. White pages, with blue links.

I've added a screen print to show what I am seeing. I added a few links b/c I am not sure which one will work:

http://i.imgur.com/jhxHqyF.jpg

<blockquote class="imgur-embed-pub" lang="en" data-id="jhxHqyF"><a href="//imgur.com/jhxHqyF">View post on imgur.com</a></blockquote><script async src="//s.imgur.com/min/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Same here, also tried IE and also broken there as well.

'Content I Follow' page, thread lists, etc. don't have this issue. Just seems to be when viewing actual threads.

Z-Saber · Jan 20, 2016

Tapatalk seems to be fine.

Deserter Goose · Jan 20, 2016

slowdive21 said:
The formatting is messed up on Firefox and chrome. White pages, with blue links.

I've added a screen print to show what I am seeing. I added a few links b/c I am not sure which one will work:

http://i.imgur.com/jhxHqyF.jpg

Glad to see it's not just me. I was starting to think everyone else was okay since no one else was mentioning it - or are that many people insane and actually using something other than FF/Chrome?

inm8num2 · Jan 20, 2016

thievery said:
Glad to see it's not just me. I was starting to think everyone else was okay since no one else was mentioning it - or are that many people insane and actually using something other than FF/Chrome?

I'm using Netscape Navigator 2.0.

Squarehard · Jan 20, 2016

Weird.

John · Jan 20, 2016

Anyone with the white page issue, try again? Same? Fixed?

inm8num2 · Jan 20, 2016

White page issue is gone for me (FF).

(though, reply box is white for some reason)

Deserter Goose · Jan 20, 2016

John said:
Anyone with the white page issue, try again? Same? Fixed?

Seems to be working for me (for the moment). I saw that it worked whenever I logged out but came back when I logged in earlier, so I assumed it either had to do with one of my forum view settings or I was just unlucky.

John · Jan 20, 2016

inm8num2 said:
White page issue is gone for me (FF).

(though, reply box is white for some reason)

Sweet. I will now pass out, back in a small number of hours.

Squarehard · Jan 20, 2016

John said:
Anyone with the white page issue, try again? Same? Fixed?

Seems fine now.

It originally happened when I logged in through the verification link, and after I got re-directed to the main page that's what I saw.

Deserter Goose · Jan 20, 2016

Also, anyone else see this earlier?

Clicking it sent me to an error page, though. :wall:

BxJoka814 · Jan 20, 2016

thievery said:
Also, anyone else see this earlier?

Clicking it sent me to an error page, though.

Thats been there

slowdive21 · Jan 20, 2016

Much better now! Thanks!

Deserter Goose · Jan 20, 2016

BxJoka814 said:
Thats been there

Then why is it gone now and wasn't there for me in the past?

BxJoka814 · Jan 20, 2016

thievery said:
Then why is it gone now and wasn't there for me in the past?

It was there for me before and its still there for me now

Edit Now its gone

TellEmSteveDave · Jan 20, 2016

Am I the only one who keeps getting signed out?

kickrockz713 · Jan 20, 2016

Turk February said:
Am I the only one who keeps getting signed out?

Same

Ryuukishi · Jan 20, 2016

Turk February said:
Am I the only one who keeps getting signed out?

Nope.

shrike4242 · Jan 20, 2016

Turk February said:
Am I the only one who keeps getting signed out?

Make sure if you have your password saved in your browser, you update it for the new password.

TellEmSteveDave · Jan 20, 2016

shrike4242 said:
Make sure if you have your password saved in your browser, you update it for the new password.

I did. Keeps signing me out on computer, iPod, and Xbox/ps4 web browsers

Viper139 · Jan 20, 2016

Glad the sites back up

iSUX · Jan 20, 2016

My day isn't complete without CAG. I'm glad it's up and running.

FriskyTanuki · Jan 20, 2016

I can no longer update the OPs of my threads, so I hope that is fixed soon.

RoboSonic · Jan 20, 2016

It's good to be back. Just heard about the hack. It's sick what people do.

Bloomy · Jan 20, 2016

FriskyTanuki said:
I can no longer update the OPs of my threads, so I hope that is fixed soon.

You getting a 413 - Request Entity Too Large error? Looks like a post character limit issue. The XBL Deals OP is a little over 100k characters including all the formatting BBcode, and I get a 413 when I attempt to preview an edit. Dropping below 50k characters as a test allowed the preview to go through. Tried editing a reply of mine in a different thread, adding more than 50k characters, and got the same error.

Renegade Moose · Jan 20, 2016

Turk February said:
I did. Keeps signing me out on computer, iPod, and Xbox/ps4 web browsers

Same here. Tapatalk is keeping me signed in and posting, though. I would have thought I would need to update my password to keep it synced.

paintballers · Jan 20, 2016

Did everyone change their passwords?

Finally CAG is back up and running!

srocky26 · Jan 20, 2016

Turk February said:
Am I the only one who keeps getting signed out?

Nope. I get logged out after a few minutes of inactivity.

Deserter Goose · Jan 20, 2016

Looks like the site's getting hacked again. Hopefully this'll stop happening soon; makes you wonder why this "hacker" has such a grudge against it.

AAK_SO_COLD · Jan 20, 2016

thievery said:
Looks like the site's getting hacked again. Hopefully this'll stop happening soon; makes you wonder why this "hacker" has such a grudge against it.

Yea, thought I was the only one that saw that. Hopefully the site is fine.

Shadowmoses12 · Jan 20, 2016

AAK_SO_COLD said:
Yea, thought I was the only one that saw that. Hopefully the site is fine.

maybe its a slickdeals hacker

anime5ever · Jan 20, 2016

stop hacking ya stupid loser. seriously why don't just get a life.

shrike4242 · Jan 20, 2016

Supposed dickhead who think's he l33t to take down CAG:

twitter.com/localblackhat

GamerDude316 · Jan 20, 2016

Yeah I just saw a hack message about 10-15 minutes ago on mobile. Ugh.

John · Jan 20, 2016

We're running in forums-only mode for a while until we can get to the bottom of this.

anime5ever · Jan 20, 2016

good, sink that stupid SOB once and for all.

shrike4242 · Jan 20, 2016

John said:
We're running in forums-only mode for a while until we can get to the bottom of this.

AKA asshole-proofing mode?

FriskyTanuki · Jan 20, 2016

Bloomy said:
You getting a 413 - Request Entity Too Large error? Looks like a post character limit issue. The XBL Deals OP is a little over 100k characters including all the formatting BBcode, and I get a 413 when I attempt to preview an edit. Dropping below 50k characters as a test allowed the preview to go through. Tried editing a reply of mine in a different thread, adding more than 50k characters, and got the same error.

No, doing an inline edit just does nothing and going to the full editor gives me when trying to submit the post:

"Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /index.php on this server."

CocheseUGA · Jan 20, 2016

shrike4242 said:
AKA asshole-proofing mode?

I think the site traffic would plummet.

Foxhack · Jan 20, 2016

John said:
CAG is back up, and lots has changed to make the site more secure.

Welp.

You should probably hire an external security consultant to help with this.

Deserter Goose · Jan 20, 2016

Foxhack said:
Welp.

You should probably hire an external security consultant to help with this.

Seriously. It's a little embarrassing to see CAG getting hacked by someone who seems to have about as much intelligence as your average 8 year old/Facebook user, if his tweets are anything to go by.

Squarehard · Jan 20, 2016

I notice that blogs have been completely removed/deactivated.

Is that how they were getting in?

groundskeeper · Jan 20, 2016

CheapyD said:
We need to regenerate new salts (the random strings used to make a hash more unique) and that screws up the stored passwords.

Its not impossible but very improbable, AKA not worth the time to brute force.

Also good read for people changing passwords:

https://www.teamsid.com/worst-passwords-2015/

shrike4242 · Jan 20, 2016

thievery said:
Seriously. It's a little embarrassing to see CAG getting hacked by someone who seems to have about as much intelligence as your average 8 year old/Facebook user, if his tweets are anything to go by.

Sounds like he needs to just get laid, then he'd have something to look forward to than hack the site.

Saix_XIII · Jan 20, 2016

I keep getting signed out often on desktop and mobile as well (both Chrome). I also noticed on mobile I cannot get rid of notifications when someone likes or quotes one of my posts, on desktop I was able to though..

Deserter Goose · Jan 20, 2016

I just had that stupid message pop up again when I posted something. Hope this doesn't mean another 17+ hours of downtime.

WingsDJY · Jan 20, 2016

John said:
We're running in forums-only mode for a while until we can get to the bottom of this.

Maybe there's a mole....

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