[Info-vax] MYSQL error WWW.OPENVMS.ORG

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/14/2019 8:45 PM, David Turner wrote:
> On 4/10/2019 4:48 AM, Ian Miller wrote:
>> On Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 8:38:08 AM UTC+1, David, Island Computers 
>> wrote:
>>> Looks like we got hit with SOMETHING that corrupted the MySQL databaes
>>> on our web server (www.islandco.com and openvms.org/openvmsnews.com)
>>>
>>> We got islandco.com up and going but for some reason Drupal and MySQL is
>>> not cooperating.
>>>
>>> Still trying from a backup from last week...
>>>
>>> Will update you all (if we get it back up anytime soon)
>>> Was thinking of redesign using another CMS anyway

No guarantee that another CMS will be better.

> There is something very strange
> i think when our server got hit with a DOS attack they were going after 
> openVMS.org NOT Islandco.com
> Drupal has a lot of security issues and I think somehow the database was 
> destroyed.

Did you keep PHP and Drupal uptodate?

Arne