Some users weren’t able to log into the forum because their account was set to use the Warrior skin, which is currently unavailable. I’ve worked around this by disabling the Warrior skin for now. Don’t worry, it’ll be back soon! Hopefully you should be able to log in now, at least.

Be sure to read the post below this one if you haven’t already.

You may have noticed that we were hacked again about a week ago and, as a result, the forum has been down a few days. Well, good news! I’ve cleaned everything up (much better than I did last time) and everything seems to be in working order. That means, yes, the forum is finally back! But wait! Remember that, although the chance is small, the hackers may have gotten your forum password. If you’re concerned about this, you should change your password, not just on the forum, but on every site where you used that password. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Wondering why the forum was down so long? A big part of it was Bluehost requires us to submit a support ticket to wipe the server. I kept the forum down during the waiting period because the server could be wiped at any time and I didn’t want anyone to write a big post and lose it in the wipe. Well, after waiting about 60(!) hours for Bluehost to get off their butts and wipe the server, we gave up and signed up for DigitalOcean instead. I think DigitalOcean is a lovely host and look forward to working with them.

Now to make sure we never get hacked again…

By the way, if any of you have e-mailed Paul (chief) during the outage, when FUS was down completely, the e-mail may have been lost. Maybe not. So if you sent in anything, go ahead and send it again just to be sure, OK?

The forum’s finally back up. We also upgraded IP.Board in the process, so things might be extra wonky for the moment. But it should be usable, at least.

We finally got the server wiped and everything reinstalled. That took a lot longer than I thought it would because it turned out wiping the server meant filing a support ticket with our webhost, then waiting, and waiting, and waiting for them to get around to it. But that’s done and we’re mostly back now.

The forum is still down at the moment, but most of the rest of the site, including Sea3on, should be available now. A few things may be missing or not acting quite right, so bear with us as we get things up and running…

I have some grave news, amigos.

On May 30th, FUS was hacked by a spammer. We still don’t know for 100% certain how they got in, but I’m 99% certain they got in through a WordPress exploit, since our WordPress was rather out of date. The main thing they did, possibly the only thing, was put up a bunch of spam pages and maybe send out spam e-mails.

But there is also a chance they got ahold of the forum database, including the password table. The passwords are encrypted (or more accurately “hashed”), which means they cannot just read your password, but they might be able to decode some of them. If you reused your FUS password anywhere else, such as for an e-mail account, we highly recommend changing those passwords just to be safe. Also, though we think the chance is tiny, FUS may still be compromised for the moment. Now, the chance they got or will get your password is very small, but it’s not impossible.

We think we have patched up the security holes, but the nature of security is one can never be too sure. So what we’re going to do is torch the site and run. *ahem* I mean, we’re going to make a big backup of everything, wipe the server, and then put everything back in as secure a manner as possible. That means that, within a day or two, FUS is going to be down for probably a few hours. We won’t lose anything; when we’re back up, everything will still be there and, we hope, it will look as though nothing had ever happened.

We deeply apologize for the inconvenience. Heck, it’s a hassle for us too! But bear with us and everything should be fine within a couple of days, OK?

Hey guys,

Those of you who have been around here the past few years know we are trying to venture out into animating Sea3on.   Though that project has found its self on a bit of a hiatus do to certain things going on, plus funding for it, yadda yadda..We still are slowly puttering away on it.  But this post isn’t about Sea3on…

One of the first guys who got on board with us right away when we first started looking for help was Jamie Alimorad.  A great up and coming artist with 2 albums already behind him.   Currently he has a kickstarter going to create another album with the help of Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and producer Gino Vannelli.   Which as a pair would make a amazing team.

Jamie is a great guy so be sure to check out his kickstarter which you can find here.

Cheers,

Paul

….Well it will if I forget to prepay my next bill before going on vacation 😛

I’ll be gone from October 8th to 22nd (ish) with no internet access.  Going to be hunting and well out of any cell phone signal.  So…Cool.    Why am I telling you guys this?  Well simply put RedAuthar is going to be running FUS.  Any issues, complaints, whatever..Go to him.  He can make rules and laws and so on.   Up till when I come back and I tell him he was being stupid.  But for 2 weeks ish he has the reign.   FurryKef will be running second to him.  Mostly for tech stuff…So if the board breaks or what not..go to him directly.   Emailing or PMing me will get you no where during this time.

Sea3on will be going on a month break after this last page.. Which means you all sadly have to go a month without.  This was planned to give Tim and Stephen a drawing break, and as well give us time to figure out how ch4 goes..drawing wise.  Plan ahead stuff.

Anyways I’ll be kicking around for another week so if you need anything catch me before then.   And no Ben I havent gotten anywhere with mass PMs.   Talk to Kef.

Cheers,
Paul

Surprise!

Sea3on returns back to full swing with a new pencils and ink artist.

Paul had this to say:

First off after harassing Stephen long enough he is with us once more.  If we kill him…I’ll just blame you lot.   Secondly he isn’t our only artist here.  In fact you might notice that the penciling and inking is a tad different.  That is because of the new artist Tim who will be doing the penciling and inking.  Stephen will stick around with us colouring.   This frees up Stephen more then he was before, while also letting him work with another high quality artist.  Plus the both of them work well together so it is a win win all around.

On another note if you have kids…Tim is  published children s book author.  Check out his stuff here: http://peppirooni.weebly.com/

See you next week,

Paul.

But what are you reading this for when you could be reading the new page?

GO!  FOR THE GOOD OF THE CITY  FUS!

http://sonicsatam.com/sea3on/

Normally when the site breaks everyone looks at me.   Basically because I have been known to break things when I tinker around..Or de-admin myself..Or forget to re-register the domain.. Well the list kind of goes on.   Thankfully I have Kef and Bakuda who..generally know how to fix things.   This past Wednesday wasn’t anything I did..Nor any of my tech staff.   What happened was a massive downtime throughout our hosts VPS and Dedicated servers.   Because I still run FUS on a VPS configuration..  that included us.

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So basically all is good now.  This isn’t a big news update but I figured I would inform the lot of you before people start thinking I broke something else.

Cheers,

Paul