Petfrd.com

[Dave Rinaldo]

Does anyone know what has happened to this site.

I get something else....http://www.petfrd.com/

[Erwin]

Hi Dave, I've also started a round mail already. So far nobody knew exactly what happened, it was more or less just guessing that the owner of the side probably forgot to renew his contract with the provider.

[The.Dark.One]

Petfrd has been hacked and back content lost apart from images! see notice!

Hi all,

i am sad to inform you all that petfrd has been hacked and most of the contents are beyond recovery, what is only left are the pictures. My heart sank when i first heard about it. Petfrd was started by Art and me and ever since there had been so much discussion on the forum eg fish ichthyology, simi thread, corydorus thread etc and all these have varinished within a few days especially toward the end of 2010.

I am very sorry that things have turned out this way and i am very apologetic. I am grateful for all your effort in making petfrd a community.

I am at wit's end on what will be the future of petfrd. The host, Alvin is kind enough to help me to restart the forum but i cannot imagine a forum without content. I hope to restart but i cannot do it alone, i really need to appeal for help on this as roles of admins and moderators which will be actively involve in the remaking of the new petfrd.

Alternatively If anyone of you have any suggestion on better usage of domain "petfrd" please let me know. Thanks!

Jesse (akan cloud79)
[email protected]

[Silurus]

The site is being rebuilt and it will be a while before it comes back online.

[racoll]

What a shame.

I was a member, but never made any posts. There was a huge amount of information on there.

I hope PC is proofed from such malicious actions?

[MatsP]

I think the biggest "proofing" needed is a complete backup of the entire site - you can't "proof" yourself against someone breaking into the system to a 100% level - sure, you can get good security, and keep applying the latest fixes. But if someone finds a hole in the armour, then they can, potentially, get in to the system and start doing things that cause havoc. It's a bit like having a very expensive car. You can lock it in a very secure garage, have an expensive and sophisticated alarm, etc, but if someone REALLY want that particular car, they probably will be able to get it some way or another. And that's when good insurance is necessary. When it comes to computers, your insurance is a backup of all data & code.

[There have been instances of "insider jobs" too - someone that works for the ISP could potentially "kill" all of a website, as an example. That person probably would also kill his/her career, but sometimes people don't think very much about that sort of thing...]

I'm pretty certain that Jools has regular backups of the forum as well as all the Cat-eLog data and articles (I hope so, anyways).

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Mats