Taloth Saldono
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Posted - 2007.10.20 16:56:00 -
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 Originally by: RegMaster
I Agree. LOL OMG. You have to realize that you have a terrible system design when your main advertisement web site and user signup site are all linked to the same game database ( single node ) and all those countless possible new users goto PAGE CANNOT BE DISPLAYED or WEBSITE NOT RESPONDING.
The CTO should have been fired 6 crashes ago....
Originally by: Freya Selene
Just like to speak my respect for the severe action taken against a possable intrucion.
The intensive search for anything that could have happend and anything related to the intrucion.
Personaly i would have re-routed at least the http traffic towards another destination witch would have given an anouncement. How small the message even could be, it updates your customers and gives you more time to respond.
But still my respect.
Freya.
Its irrelevant whether they are or are not linked to the same database cluster. (not server, I very much doubt one server could handle the full db load)
The breach was, as indicated, an infrastructural breach and the entire network was shut down at the taskforce recommendation. Meaning, all proxies, web servers, game servers and db servers are 'shutdown' to ensure that no external entity could effect more damage or that one compromised system in a partially disabled network could continue to cause harm.
There is no excuse for the loss of training for those who care, CCP should be able to guarantee such training easily with features as suggested many times over. And I hope the many \signed in this thread will finally get it out of the Drawingboard and into the next featured expansion.
As for the lack of information, the EVE server notification area (login screen) is hosted by the same webserver, the client could easily be configured to look on another secure URL if the primary connection fails (Meaning that CCP doesn't have to take any action to ensure the user is redirected to a trustworthy source). But as CCP already mentioned, they will be implementing something to the same end.
Taloth
PS: Reading the news item I understand the culprit is already identified (and hopefully detained by now).
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