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everytime i go to neowin's forum i get redirected to another site (hxxp://dupedb.com). I have to hit stop before it redirects to visit any page on the forum...

using safari on mac os x 10.6.2

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lol, forum is hacked, not the first time ive seen this happen.

Just a lame redirect injection.

Problem in head of html, needs to be removed.

<meta content="0; URL=http://dupedb.com/" http-equiv="Refresh"/>

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This has now been resolved. Once the staff have had time to discuss and analyse the event, we will let you guys know what happened, until then, please bear with us.

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We're still checking out the whole site for any more malicious content that may have been added. If you find anything, please post here or email developers@neowin.net with a link to where it can be found, and we will remove it as quickly as possible.

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Someone may have guessed Steve's account's password, hence his (temporary) bannage up there. Even then, those logging into the admin interface can't read off passwords of members, so everything seems fine at the moment.

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Someone may have guessed Steve's account's password, hence his (temporary) bannage up there. Even then, those logging into the admin interface can't read off passwords of members, so everything seems fine at the moment.

Guessing seems a bit much considering you would hope most of these forums have a feature that blocks too many invaild attempts. Not sure if neowin uses such a tool.

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Someone may have guessed Steve's account's password, hence his (temporary) bannage up there. Even then, those logging into the admin interface can't read off passwords of members, so everything seems fine at the moment.

the best case scenario is if Steve himself came home a tad bit too drunk after a Christmas night out??

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The developers are still investigating but this looks like an isolated case where Neobond's account was accessed and used to put a redirect on the forum.

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Thats the reason why a post was made on the front page stating that the forums had been taken offline. I couldn't read it as when I clicked it, the news post was already deleted.

Eventhough over credentials are being compromised, no biggie. IPB uses a hashing algorithm. Its just impossible to decode it.

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