For those of you who are unaware, the Hero6.org website runs on a private server that I own. Although most of its processing power and resources goes into running the behemoth known as Windows Vista, there exists a small corner that contains the server software and this forum.
Altogether, it's about 150-200 megabytes (sans logs). Hardly a bounty of information for the would-be snooper. Still, that did not stop an anonymous ne'er-do-well from attempting to circumvent our security measures.
Fortunately, ChamberOfFear noticed a drastic increase of traffic and notified me via the Hero6 IRC channel. We quickly ascertained that the site was the victim in a DDOS attack. Specifically, they pointed a botnet at our site and attempted to exploit an earlier version of Wordpress. They also attempted to bypass the administrator login for Wordpress.
From what I understand, Wordpress is often the target for botnet recruitment. I only used it to decrease development time for the forum. Rest assured, Hero6.org is safe. I would gladly nuke the site and re-install from our backup before I allowed the site to become a slave to the darker corners of the Internet.
No hard feeling though. "Haters gonna hate" and "hackers gonna hack", I suppose. Hopefully, they have a good sense of humor though. I redirected their traffic here (safe for viewing).
