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Apr 19, 2010 :: Everything back to normal

So, last week we scrambled a bit to get everythig working again, but as far as we see, everything is fine again. We installed a new (virtual) machine for freesound, configured the software and that was it. Nothing was lost, except a few uploads in the 24hrs we were "broken"... *pfew*
For your information: we do have backups in multiple locations of all the audio files and the database, so, no worries ;)

Apr 11, 2010 :: Hacked.... :-(

Hello everyone, yesterday at around 11 western europe time Freesound got "hacked". Someone got into the server and installed what was the start of some botnet software. However, both Jordi (our trusty sysadmin) and me both noticed it pretty quickly. We got to them before they actually installed a rootkit.
The summary is that Jordi had to reinstall the webserver vm from zero. They had severely broken the software on the machine.
As far as we know no data was compromised, nothing was lost.
However you will be experience some trouble over the next few days uploading sounds, perhaps in the forum as well etc etc... If you see any troubles, please contact us over at the contact page

Jan 28, 2010 :: KaleiVoiceCope

Here's some cool news from MTG: "MTG developed it's first facebook application: KaleiVoiceCope! It records your voice and makes it sound like an old man, monster, alien and more. Check it out and post the result to your wall!". Fun! :-)

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