********************** PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL APPLICABLE PROJECT LISTS ********************* Over the past few days sites that are hosted on theusgenweb.org (including the state projects for WIGenWeb, MEGenWeb, MTGenWeb, DCGenWeb) were once again visited by hackers. The bottom line of what they did was to go in and overwrite the index pages that belonged to the USGenWeb sites with a generic page that indicated that the sites were never set up. For the most part, only the index pages of the sites were involved. The immediate action that I took was to disable all ftp access yesterday (that's how the hackers got in to make their changes) until we could get a hold on things. All sites have been cleaned and the original index pages uploaded from backup copies. Passwords once again will be changed for all accounts. In order to receive the new passwords to the accounts, the CCs/SCs need to do a complete virus scan and malware scan of their computers. We'll need an email documenting that this has been done. In addition, everyone will need to send me their IP address (please send to [email protected]). To find the IP address, go to http://whatismyip.com. The page will open up and the IP address will be shown in large numbers at the top of the page. If you know whether you have a static IP address, please also include that info. (For those not familiar with this, a static IP address is one that never changes, even when you turn off your computer and restart it. Should you discover any continuing (or other) problems with any involved sites, please be sure to report them. Sherri Bradley National Coordinator USGenWeb Project Information about the USGenWeb Project at http://usgenweb.org Advisory Board Agenda http://usgenweb.org/agenda2.php

Sherri, My computer is scanned by AVG every 12 hours. My IP address changes several times a day so I can't give you an IP. I haven't uploaded to HIGenWeb or Edgar IL since the clear from the last hacker attack. Maggie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sherri" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2009 7:59 AM Subject: [STATE-COORD] Hacker Attacks ********************** PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL APPLICABLE PROJECT LISTS ********************* Over the past few days sites that are hosted on theusgenweb.org (including the state projects for WIGenWeb, MEGenWeb, MTGenWeb, DCGenWeb) were once again visited by hackers. The bottom line of what they did was to go in and overwrite the index pages that belonged to the USGenWeb sites with a generic page that indicated that the sites were never set up. For the most part, only the index pages of the sites were involved. The immediate action that I took was to disable all ftp access yesterday (that's how the hackers got in to make their changes) until we could get a hold on things. All sites have been cleaned and the original index pages uploaded from backup copies. Passwords once again will be changed for all accounts. In order to receive the new passwords to the accounts, the CCs/SCs need to do a complete virus scan and malware scan of their computers. We'll need an email documenting that this has been done. In addition, everyone will need to send me their IP address (please send to [email protected]). To find the IP address, go to http://whatismyip.com. The page will open up and the IP address will be shown in large numbers at the top of the page. If you know whether you have a static IP address, please also include that info. (For those not familiar with this, a static IP address is one that never changes, even when you turn off your computer and restart it. Should you discover any continuing (or other) problems with any involved sites, please be sure to report them. Sherri Bradley National Coordinator USGenWeb Project Information about the USGenWeb Project at http://usgenweb.org Advisory Board Agenda http://usgenweb.org/agenda2.php ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message