XSIBase login error

rray · **Posted:** 29 Dec 2011, 12:49

It looks like currently it's not possible to log in to XSIBase, unless you're automatically logged in by cookies.

Quote:

2: fopen(approve1.php) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied
(/home/xsi/ftp/www/forum/index.php(315) : eval()'d code ln 1)

Another hack? I hope they'll get some new moderators/admins on board, would be a shame to see the site go down.

Hirazi Blue · **Joined:** 04 Jun 2009, 12:15 **Posts:** 3205

One of the biggest problems, I think, the xsibase faces (and Atyss hinted at this a long time ago) is the fact that the code of the forum software should get a thorough overhaul, but nobody has the time (or even probably enough knowledge) to embark on such an epic adventure. So I don't think it's necessarily getting new mods/admins (although that certainly would help some), the root of all evil lies in the maintainability of the forum software. As an administrator on the si-community I can only say, I fully sympathize. In the long run this forum will face similar problems with its forum software (and to a certain extent it already does). And hackers sadly know more about (the tricks of) the forum software they attack than most mods/admins. That is why the latter always fight a losing battle...

iamVFX · **Joined:** 24 Sep 2010, 18:28 **Posts:** 595

XSIBase looks like site from the early 90s. Just saying

origin · **Posted:** 29 Dec 2011, 18:35

yep outdated & abandoned site. Too bad you can't move their database over here.

Rez007 · **Posted:** 29 Dec 2011, 19:51

Yea, I couldn't even create an account on that site ever...always had an error.

rray · **Posted:** 29 Dec 2011, 19:55

Yes adding volunteer staff would only add some time. I hope at least there's an automatic backup for its database othewise with the next best hack attack, everything could be completely gone.

luceric · **Posted:** 30 Dec 2011, 05:54

I think it logs you in anyway. Worked for me anyway. Might have sent your password to Russia, though

Hirazi Blue · **Joined:** 04 Jun 2009, 12:15 **Posts:** 3205

luceric wrote:

Might have sent your password to Russia, though

To me that (or sending it to any other country, for that matter)
is a good reason to not try again,
until they give the all-clear officially...
:-?

Memag · **Posted:** 30 Dec 2011, 14:29

Is there indication Russian hackers did it?

Hirazi Blue · **Joined:** 04 Jun 2009, 12:15 **Posts:** 3205

No, I think this is more of a figure of speech... (at least that's how I read it)
(edit: see next two posts:) malicious "Russian hackers" as a stand-in for any malicious hacker in general...

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