Board4all

[JMP-JECXZ]

Originally Posted by Zeokat

With Board4all closed, i'm lost.

Any decent alternative?

there is tons of other boards for hungry warez lamerz

[CryptXor]

Originally Posted by Mendax47

if this forum and CGPersia also shut down then I well be in coma...

If CGP shut down that's game over, pirates lost.

[Rasmus]

Originally Posted by CryptXor

If CGP shut down that's game over, pirates lost.

Is this (https://cgpersia.com) the CGPersia that everyone is talking about? It appears to be a multimedia/3D/CAM/CAM Computer Graphics type of site rather than a general warez site... Or is it another site that everyone is referring to?

[phroyt]

Originally Posted by JMP-JECXZ

there is tons of other boards for hungry warez lamerz

The site is not only warez.
The point system was very solid, BTW.

It was a reliable source for me, about everything related to Delphi for at least 10 years. The community was very constructive.

I was using it for JetBrains stuff lately...

[JMP-JECXZ]

well there is also tons of programming boards you know

[arthur plank]

Good news ... just tried going in ... and ... it's working

[Mendax47]

Originally Posted by squareD

They are down, could happen, so why this flurry?
I'm not a prophet, but I think they come back

down for 21 days.. looks fishy to me.....

[Mendax47]

Originally Posted by Rasmus

Is this (https://cgpersia.com) the CGPersia that everyone is talking about? It appears to be a multimedia/3D/CAM/CAM Computer Graphics type of site rather than a general warez site... Or is it another site that everyone is referring to?

it's mainly the forum.. so helpful for CG related apps. and has many talented cracker like countryboy, uncia, nomad...

https://forum.cgpersia.com/

registration is currently closed... if you need an account you can pm me... i have an extra account....

[Zeokat]

Hello Mendax47, is possible get an invite to CGpersia, i'm can't send PMs here.

I can give you an email if you can. Thanks.

[SockPuppet]

The admins of Board4all are not very transparent about the actual reasons.
On the 20th Of October, 2022 they put up an announcement notice. The body of that notice reads:

"Unfortunately, last week our server was compromised due to a loophole in the VNC, this was detected by the team quite quickly and the server brought offline. During the offline period we analysed the server files and logs, and later notified the host of this vulnerability so it does not happen to any of their other customers moving forward. We changed all passwords, obtained a new IP address (previously exposed by the MX / TXT domain records), changed access ports and pretty much changed everything that could have been obtained for the short time they had access.

I would like to add that there is nothing on the host vnc logs or server side logs to suggest any data loss but as with anything internet, you cannot guarantee 100% it did or it did not. However, if it has happened then it is a sad day for the team but as with everything, we move on and learn from it. However, what I will add is the actual person responsible spoke to me and informed me of how he got in so that the vunerability could be resolved - this has to be a positive thing and maybe nothing malicious was attempted while he connected and he was merely pointing this out.

Emails
As mentioned above, we previously used our own internal mail servers that sadly required us to expose the actual servers IP address in the domain record. Moving forward we will using a trusted external provider for any forum mailing. However, for a short period you will not receive any emails from the forum while we set this up.

Anyway, it is what it is, nothing we can do about it now since it has already happened.. we learn from it and move on."

You can view that screenshot here: Downtime Announcement Screenshot
I have also attached the screenshot of that notice to this post.

This notice was viewed by nearly all the active members of the forum before it was silently taken down a couple of days later.

So according to the Board4All forum staff, there was a VNC server running on the hosting server which had vulnerabilities. This means that effectively, if anyone exploited that VNC server, they would have remote access to that hosting server!

Everyone thought it strange that the notice was silently taken down and then the staff pretended that everything was fine. After that, the forum went down for another 21 days without any updates from the forum staff.

Subsequently the Board4All staff deleted even their Discord server silently.

All this is known and confirmed by the regular visitors to the Board4All forum.

Anyway it appears to be rather clear that there have been several significant compromises to the forum security, that the forum needed to be offline for over 21 days.

Prior to the 21 days, the forum was also offline TWICE or a week each time the month prior, for which the forum staff cited DDos attacks as the reason.
That screenshot can be viewed here: Board4All DDos Attacks
I have also attached that screenshot as well to this post.

[Mendax47]

Originally Posted by Zeokat

Hello Mendax47, is possible get an invite to CGpersia, i'm can't send PMs here.

I can give you an email if you can. Thanks.

unfortunately, the forum has stopped registering users only cgpeers have... however I can share you an extra id which I got from one of my friends.... give me your email I can't send you pm either....

[p4r4d0x]

they are back ...

[taos]

"Forum is currently offline - please be patient."

[Zeokat]

@Mendax47 , check my profile and you will find my contact email. Thanks.

[senatormas]

seems like we should continue here
any friend form B4A?!