Hi everybody,
Just as a heads up, the forum will be down for a reasonable amount of time tomorrow as we apply a very important set of patches to our current installation of phpBB 3.
As a quick review, the forum software hasn't been updated in several years, and has zero-day exploits available that are hundreds of days old. (Like, years.) This update, which is graciously being installed for us by our new technical coordinator (who is much better at web application administration than I am), is expected to take no longer than a few hours, at some point tomorrow morning.
More information is in this post.
We appreciate your patience as we work on updating the forum platform for additional security and possibly even better compatibility with modern web browsers. wthww or I will reply to this global announcement when the update is complete, and (I'm testing out forum features) the announcement should sink into the regular "General 68kMLA News and Stuff" forum seven days after I post this initial announcement.
Best,
Cory W.
Just as a heads up, the forum will be down for a reasonable amount of time tomorrow as we apply a very important set of patches to our current installation of phpBB 3.
As a quick review, the forum software hasn't been updated in several years, and has zero-day exploits available that are hundreds of days old. (Like, years.) This update, which is graciously being installed for us by our new technical coordinator (who is much better at web application administration than I am), is expected to take no longer than a few hours, at some point tomorrow morning.
More information is in this post.
We appreciate your patience as we work on updating the forum platform for additional security and possibly even better compatibility with modern web browsers. wthww or I will reply to this global announcement when the update is complete, and (I'm testing out forum features) the announcement should sink into the regular "General 68kMLA News and Stuff" forum seven days after I post this initial announcement.
Best,
Cory W.