Restoring 2 TGP galleries and restoring the scripts and data used
on the xBiz site would be another matter. Depending on what
state the box is in and if the backdoor has been found, it could
be quite a nightmare with quite a lot of work to do.

As said before, stop overthinking and just wait for the site to
come up if you want to visit it. If you don't want to visit it then
who cares.

-Ben

Hey Ben - Nice press release for Xbiz. :Graucho

:thumbsup

Cheers,
Matt

geez u guys are wacko.... simply crazy..... devote so much time to
inventing invisible enemies. I'm just a guy posting what is
obvious. If you think I'm an xBiz shill then it just shows you are
paranoid.

I don't work for xBiz and have not been in communication with
them at all.

It's just simple.....

It's the weekend, best time to hijack I'm sure.

The server gets pounded into submission. (I'm sure xBiz DDoS'd
their own box just to upload a new index. pfft)

A page appears which is updated by a script which thus stops the
box owners putting up any kind of page of their own as it will be
replaced by the hackers script.

The backdoor for this script has probably been hidden by log
killers, is probably some kind of binary hack and could be
extremely difficult to find.

I'm pretty sure xBiz don't have the resources to simply switch to
a pre-existing backup server.

None of you have any idea just how hard it would be to restore
this site. No matter how good the backups are it'll still take a
great deal of work to get back to how it was.

This restoration work can not even start until the backdoor is
found and closed. Which could be a huge job for even a very
talented admin.

Think for a second rather than just switching to disgruntled
mode. xBiz is a webmaster resource not a fortune100. What
makes you think they have a team of admins watching their box
24/7 and an office full of people on Sunday escapes me.

-Ben

stop making so much sense, this is GFY :1orglaugh

Did their whois get changed?

I havent bothered to look

Cheers!!!!! ya da!

Xbiz and the whole Helmy company are first rate. This isn't something they would do for publicity. They're not that stupid.

Well even if you are just the board hostess arent you just a bit curious as to whats going on? Have you not contacted Helmy or someone that might be important over there to see whats going on? Seems strange to me that the moderators havent clued in enough to be asking someone why they cant get into a place they work at.

Right on!

You, my friend, are one fucking annoying sig whore. Ignore activated asshole.

good idea!


i think if sponsors will learn that it was pr
xbiz will have some probs with ad space

because noone can guarantee that the server will not be off for some days again

100% PR -
If the site was hacked, there are plenty of guys over at x biz to put this right... Only a matter of changing passwords and the hacked files.
The message has you going back - Not just people who know about x biz, but hundreds of other's who do not know about it.

A stunt - And a very vell thought out one:thumbsup

would you call the Netherlands if you could not get onto a board that you moderated?

Who said there was anyone at their office on Sunday?

No it's not.

You ppl need to use less crack, I'm not saying quit or anything.
Just don't smoke so much!

-Ben

I really doubt that . . . Alec is smarter than that :2 cents:

however, should I be proven wrong, and this was a stunt, contrary to your assertions, it was not very well thought out

i say its a pr stunt

I know Xbiz was doing a whole new revamp and new design...i think it is a marketing stunt...

mark my words... there will be a new design and look of xbiz by tomorrow morning :-)

If there nameservers were changed then it could take several days to get the dns info straightened out and propagated on the net.

Want to own someone ?

Hack there domain registrar account and change the nameservers.

This takes days to repair

That's a confident statement, sir.

well, the deadline has come and gone . . . . so much for marking your words

crazy to get attention

well look like they're back up with a brand spanking new design... :winkwink:

I think you only missed by a few hours....so consider your words marked. :)

you appear to be right in the end.

Yet, I know everything about xbiz. It was actually the first board I posted at.

have to say, I was one of the first two mods they ever had (back when it was 69spot), and I am very disappointed. I don't know that I will ever go back there

I guess we learn something new every day

guess mr yellow should be kissing ass as he was dead wrong.

hmm this should get interesting, PR? i'll wait to see how it pans out, but thats not good PR anyway you look at it :glugglug

I like how the one person that did know something continued to mislead us

:1orglaugh Looks like you may be right.

very very lame stunt

ditto. :)

Is it me or xbiz main page don't look like usual ?

It's just you. Looks exactly the same to everyone else.

why do I find this funny?

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There seems to have been a slight problem with the database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

That video on the front page "Breaking News" is pretty cool though :)

and one that gave her opinion that worked there for 3 years and knows how things work was acused of having beef with them.

such a shame :(

This is fun!

Dead wrong?

If it was a PR stunt then I still stand my ground and say that it's a
bloody stupid way to get PR.

[sarcasm]
I know if I wanted some PR the first thing I'd do is delete every
single file from my server. I'd remove my sponsors banners who
pre-pay. I'd remove all incoming links from syndicated sites. I'd
make sure SE spiders see 404 instead of the thousands of pages
I've got listed. I'd take down everything. That's the best way to
get PR. The only way.
[/sarcasm]

-Ben

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The fake hack was fun to decode, the last line represented all the people that worked on the new design!!


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:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Well if xBiz is going to use my support and good name to trade
PR then they can get fucked in a big way.

Fuckin hahahahas.

-Ben

Sorry if I doubted you Brand0n

xBiz are a shitty stuggling board who thinks very little of their users.

Can't blame me for thinking they were better than that.

But they are not..... they are on the very bottom of my list now.

-Ben

i think so too

... well spoken, btw: they are back, if anyone cares !!

dont care.. short lasted stunt.