EnglishThis Friday, July 17th, the website FurryBrasil went through an attack that deleted all files in their server, including other furry projects in development and other non-furry sites. Not even log files survived to tell the tale. FurryBrasil has suffered loss of data before, but never under malicious attacks.
There was another victim yesterday (16th) morning, around 3am (Brasília time). Brazilian furry portal Fauna Urbana suffered a minor denial of service attack, that knocked the main site (and other shared furry and non-furry projects) for a few minutes. No invasions or data lost in this case.
Not long ago, Furry News Network alerts there’s a hacker group that uses the furry fandom as a bait. We’re going through times in which the most powerful nations and corporations are clashing in the online space, and the Internet is definitely far less secure than it has been.
At Fauna Urbana Network we’re enhancing our plans for data security, backup and disaster recovery. We also advise that one never uses a password that may be in a dictionary, plus avoid password re-usage.
FurryBrasil is already recovered, but unfortunately lost 1 month of data.
Why Reposting it in english here? Would be better to just make a extended post at the first one with the translation.. Anyway, thanks to Fauna Urbana big servers (Word Press ftw) that managed to stand against the attack, unfortunatelly didn’t work for FurryBrasil.
We repost usually to help external consumers (FNN, Flayrah) to read without using a dummy Google Translator.
By the way, we can work hard to ensure that your data is safe, but on the internet, even CIA did not survived an attack similar to what happened to Fauna, obviously, the attack against us was waaaay toooo small compared to what shutdown CIA’s website.
hell yeah XD
WordPress did a good job holding those guys, so did fauna urbana, cuz those guys managed to get such bigs sites but fauna managed to survive, this shows the good service we have here ^^ Proud to participate here :D
Why not simply make an english area on FU, like in most websites? FU can be intrenationnal ’cause the information is a little “from all over the world” no? :3
That’s indeed a good idea firespike, make buttons with the country flags, so the viewers can acess the one they wish to. The only problem is that FU would have to “hire” people just to translate everythiong u.u That’s a good idea, but it’s something that needs a good planning.
I don’t thing that FU need to “hire”, just found volonteers who would translate the news and send by mail the translation to the FU’s team XD
Well, lets wait’n'see
It already has an English area, it’s just not completely set apart from the main Portuguese one.
Guys, calm down a little bit =P
Don’t forget that Fauna Urbana will receive a new layout (2.0)