For the last couple of weeks malicious bots have been hammering the ISFDB server almost non-stop, which made it effectively unavailable except when the bots took brief breaks.
On top of that, earlier today we learned that the PHP programming language, which is used by the ISFDB Wiki as well as by millions of other Web sites, has a crucial vulnerability. We have taken the site down and will be working on patching PHP. It won't address the bot problem, but at least it will address the security issue.
This post will be updated once PHP is patched.
4 comments:
Thanks for keeping everyone in the loop. I hope you can get back online soon.
We are working on it, but it's one of those things where the released emergency patch requires certain components to be upgraded first and then you find out that those components have other prerequisites and so on and so forth. With luck it won't take too long...
Thanks for sharing, I was wondering about the cause. ISFDB is a valuable resource, keep up the good work.
Looking forward to the site being available again. I use it multiple times a week. Thanks for providing it!
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