CPCpower is down, may need security help.

[Gryzor]

Well, that is something at least.

[AMSDOS]

Why, is that something that hasn't happened before, almost with disastrous effects?


Roger has nothing to do with it, how on earth did you figure that?

I figure that he likes to rip-off people with software, so what better way than to shut down the competition? I can speculate can't I? 

[McKlain]

I figure that he likes to rip-off people with software, so what better way than to shut down the competition? I can speculate can't I? 

Are you talking about Roger Howett Sam Coupe 6mhz z80 split raster memory dos loader turbo plz help?

[Bryce]

Are you talking about Roger Howett Sam Coupe 6mhz z80 split raster memory dos loader turbo plz help?

So it was you all along!!??!! McKlain is Roger Howett!

Bryce.

[AMSDOS]

Are you talking about Roger Howett Sam Coupe 6mhz z80 split raster memory dos loader turbo plz help?

Well it doesn't have to be them, if you don't want. 

[TMR]

Well that would be an all time low if it were them simply wanting to hack our websites. 

On behalf of the Commodore 64 community[1] i'd just like to say "feck off" - if C64 coders had hacked the site, it'd be better than before with trainers and PAL/NTSC compatibility!!

Seriously though, as others have noted the odds are that the damage was done by someone who possibly isn't even aware of the CPC wanting to leverage privileges in order to install malware or something like a fake bank login page for phishing. Some people can do this well, many more will screw the target site up in the process but none of them care as long as their scam runs for a few days.

[1] i have no authority to speak on behalf of the Commodore 64 community.

[Munchausen]

It wasn't a good idea to delete the content if you wanted to find out what happened - I wish I'd read this topic sooner now, to provide that warning. I work in software security, and although my area is binary analysis/reverse engineering rather than network/internet security, I could have asked someone to have a look at a dump. Having said that, chances are it was a known vulnerability that could have been avoided by keeping up to date with security patches.

[cwpab]

Guys,

I just downloaded this: http://www.cpc-power.com/gamebasecpc/index.php?page=full

It seems to be the V20 version of something calleds the Game Base CPC.

I have 3 questions now:

1) Is this the data which was on CPCpower?

2) Is there a way to download the last version, apparently V23?

3) Where are the installers? I don't want to browse this with Microsoft Access only.

[Bryce]

Oh, to download V23 you'll need one of these: http://www.dcbnet.com/datasheet/v23sa.jpg
It might take a while too, they weren't all that fast

Bryce.

[cwpab]

 

Anyways it's a real shame what happened to CPCPower.

Any good alternative while they re-create the page, hopefully with enhanced security?

[Johnny Olsen]

3) Where are the installers? I don't want to browse this with Microsoft Access only.

Here

GameBase - Universal Emulator frontend and Database Utility

[AMSDOS]

I won't be able to use it if it's going to be like this. 


If the site was a FTP then that would work for me, cause then I could just go in, download stuff from the relevant section and add anything if necessarily & I think a FTP would be a lot more hassle for a hacker to hack.

[Nich]

Any good alternative while they re-create the page, hopefully with enhanced security?

You could try CPCrulez. It contains a huge amount of information and lots of magazine articles, but it can be a bit difficult to navigate and find what you're looking for!

If you want to download games, NVG is still up and running! The full list of programs is available at the URL below:

ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/cpc/00_index.html

[Joss]

(don't know if said before). I've read this hint in amstrad.es: you can go to http://archive.org/web/web.php and write the name of the web cpc-power in the blank. It shows you different backups of the site.


(from cpcwiki too  )

[AMSDOS]

(don't know if said before). I've read this hint in amstrad.es: you can go to http://archive.org/web/web.php and write the name of the web cpc-power in the blank. It shows you different backups of the site.


(from cpcwiki too  )

This will help me with those type-ins, I cannot refine my search options, though at least I can download articles of type-ins. Do you know how long the archive will store that site for, or is it a permanent backup?

[McKlain]

As far as I know, it's permanent. I've seen there some websites in wich I worked more than 10 years ago.

[AMSDOS]

Unfortunately I was sadly mistaking. Archive doesn't capture the articles which were on CPC-Power.    By the looks of it, some of the stuff I thought I was already downloading, I already had, hence the confusion, so Archive will show the Type-ins, the articles it has for them and what's available.

[AMSDOS]

You could try CPCrulez.

Try this if you're not looking for the BBC. 

[Nich]

Try this if you're not looking for the BBC. 

Oops! There's my taste in music revealed to everyone! I've fixed my post above - although the forum software still won't link to FTP sites properly.

[AMSDOS]

Oops! There's my taste in music revealed to everyone! I've fixed my post above - although the forum software still won't link to FTP sites properly.

Hmm, used to work fine for me when I was using IE, seemed to be an issue with the browser that was being used, so I'm not sure if this is gonna work from my Mac now.


ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/cpc/00_index.html


Kukulcan informs me he'll need a few weeks to make a comeback for the website.

[Gryzor]

@TMR: nice answer But yeah, I highly doubt it it was someone from another scene. If nothing else, I'm 100% that even if it was, it wouldn't be a 'scene' action but an individual one, so the discussion is moot anyway.

@Munchausen: who knows, maybe there's an offline backup, but these things tend to be extremely demoralising so, although I disagree with the deletion, I can see the reason...

[Devilmarkus]

I talked with Kukulcan.

He will put the game archive online again, but with less functionality.

So he will not use any SQL database or also no extensive php scripts / javascripts.

[Ygdrazil]

Hi Devilmarkus

Did Kukulcan mention something about restoring links to individual pieces of software? ... otherwise we have a lot of rotten links on the Wiki! 


Regards,
Ygdrazil

I talked with Kukulcan.

He will put the game archive online again, but with less functionality.

So he will not use any SQL database or also no extensive php scripts / javascripts.

[Gryzor]

Hi Devilmarkus

Did Kukulcan mention something about restoring links to individual pieces of software? ... otherwise we have a lot of rotten links on the Wiki! 


Regards,
Ygdrazil

That's a good point... damn.

[Devilmarkus]

Good question

Perhaps you should ask him himself?

He's also registered here. So, best, send him a PM and ask.

I don't see him online, daily... But I'm sure, he reads a PM, when sent...?!?

When I meet him next time online I'll ask him, too.