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    Website back up

    Just to let you know that the server that hosts the badsquash website (and many other Microserve websites besides) was attacked yesterday in an attempt to turn it into a clone machine as part of a 'bot-net' that would then, in turn, attack other machines. Scary stuff.

    There were enough smarts in place that the cloning didn't work but it did enough damage to take the server and all the sites down and delete a lot of important stuff.

    Dan Jones from Microserve has done a stirling job rebuilding the server and re-installing everything (took about 15 hours) and it all appears to be OK now.

    As far as I can see we haven't lost any data but do please check from your perspective and let me know if you are missing something.

    Dan has upped the security even further now to reduce the chance of this happening again but you can never be sure. Hurrah for backups!

    Cheers,

      Richard.