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#2723740 - 05/13/09 05:47 AM AVSIM hacked
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PRESS RELEASE:

AVSIM Hacked

Tom Allensworth, CEO and Publisher of AVSIM, today issued the following announcement; “We regret to inform the flight simulation community that on Tuesday, May 12, AVSIM was hacked and effectively destroyed. The method of the hack makes recovery difficult, if not impossible, to recover from. Both servers, that is the library / email and web site / forum servers were attacked. AVSIM is totally offline at this time and we expect to be so for some time to come. We are not able to predict when we will be back online, if we can come back at all. We will post more news as we are able to in the coming days and weeks.
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#2723744 - 05/13/09 05:52 AM Re: AVSIM hacked [Re: Tom_Weiss]
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sounds like extortion or terrorism at the internet level

in the US it is a case for the FBI

elsewhere i think it is a case for the serious crime squad..

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#2723798 - 05/13/09 07:09 AM Re: AVSIM hacked [Re: panchobel]
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sux. I'd like to see these hackers caught and prosecuted.
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#2723828 - 05/13/09 07:49 AM Re: AVSIM hacked [Re: 20mm]
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If they want to - they can, but the news are really bad:

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Some have asked whether or not we had back ups. Yes, we dutifully backed up our servers every day. Unfortunately, we backed up the servers BETWEEN servers. That is, GREEN, our library server, would be backed up to PURPLE, our WEB/Forum server. That way, if one or the other failed, we would have a back up on the remaining active server. The hacker took out both servers, destroying our ability to use one or the other back up to remedy the situation.


the data is all there, it will cost a bit to retrieve it, then they need to know what happened - no sense in going back online just to see it happen all over again.

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#2723831 - 05/13/09 07:51 AM Re: AVSIM hacked [Re: Tom_Weiss]
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I hate to point it out, but nothing beats a good tape library.
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#2723834 - 05/13/09 07:54 AM Re: AVSIM hacked [Re: joe_stallin]
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nothing (also) beats an external hard drive with RAID mirroring that you unplug after a backup.
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#2723850 - 05/13/09 08:08 AM Re: AVSIM hacked [Re: Tom_Weiss]
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Didn't visit it there much. The search feature at simviation seemed more suited to my needs.

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#2723856 - 05/13/09 08:16 AM Re: AVSIM hacked [Re: DaveSHQ]
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What a shame. AVSim has been my preferred site for FS addons for years.

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#2723864 - 05/13/09 08:33 AM Re: AVSIM hacked [Re: Tom_Weiss]
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Originally Posted By: Thomas DW
nothing (also) beats an external hard drive with RAID mirroring that you unplug after a backup.


Actually, there is a lot that beats both an external RAID and a Tape library...

Avsim, big as it was, really needed a proper DR schema in addition to a proper replication and backup (and failover) schema.

The schema that they presented was flawed to be polite, and absolutely crazy if you want to leave politeness at the door.

At their level, they needed to be setup professionally.

I sure hope SimHQ has it's sh*t in one sock.

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#2723876 - 05/13/09 08:55 AM Re: AVSIM hacked [Re: Skater]
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It is a wake up call for all of us, C6 server was hacked less than 2 weeks ago.
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