Yes but according to XWIS staff, XWIS is hosted on EA's server with good defenses, so we're not talking about a pencil-pushing newb here. They were also able to neutralize my site and make it redirect to homoerotic pornography.
This is one skilled hacker, by the looks
Honestly... it's really not that skillful
It only takes the following to carry out that kind of attack.
- a trojan (with someone stupid enough to install it, and type in the ftp login details)
- a botnet made up of trojanned pcs
It really doesn't take that much skill to do that, and that's the reason why only an idiot or lamer would do it :s
As most people playing in the cnc community become victims of trojans and bots on occasion, its up to that individual to ensure they keep their anti-virus software up-to-date to ensure that they do not unwittingly become the victims of their pcs being used in an attack against xwis, or ea.
I just checked cncftw (to read up on this post) and your forums appear to be offline.
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P.S. It's good to see xwis back online
Edited by WhiteTib, 13 March 2013 - 04:46 PM.