Server Reboot Imminent

[Vekseid]

A major security vulnerability was discovered earlier today. E and BMR were a bit more isolated from it than my other servers, but we still need to go down for a bit.

This will hopefully not take long at all. Thank you everyone.

 

[FoxWriter]

oh gosh that's bad! i don't know much about anything like this so i only have two questions.

should i change my BMR password and should i run a virus scan?

 

[Vekseid]

No. E and BMR have never been compromised like that.

 

[Vekseid]

The reboot was to address this:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/02/extremely-severe-bug-leaves-dizzying-number-of-apps-and-devices-vulnerable/

Before anything nasty was actually in the wild for it.

 

[Sync]

About when do you expect this will occur, and roughly how long will the site be down?

Of course...if it's already happened and I missed it, don't worry.

 

[Vekseid]

About 60 hours ago : p