Developer Popular Post Maxi Posted July 3, 2013 Developer Popular Post Share Posted July 3, 2013 Dear community, Over the past month we have seen a reign of cyber crime across the Runescape botting scene. vInsert was the victim of several Runescape account hacking disputes before its database got compromised in the merger with Aurora. Now Advertising other bots isn't allowed. was defaced as well and its database was compromised as well. This thread is to shed some light on our perspective towards those recent happenings. We have always tried to be in time with warnings to protect you as people, Runescape players and us as a community and succeeded in doing this. But as this wave is continuing we have to give it more attention. In general everything we do is with security in mind, that means our security (both personal and OSBot's) and your security. With the recent happenings we have decided that we will take an entire day to go through each and every security measurement we have and see if there is anything that can be improved without harming any user experience. We feel sad for the victims of those attacks even though they might be competitors in some sort of way, we do not and will never condone DDoS'ing, hacking and any other sort of black hat activity. OSBot itself also has been victim of attacks, may it only be DDoS attacks though. We are increasing measurements taken to automatically mitigate such attacks. If such attacks will continue we will alarm authorities and file a report. We will be collecting network connection logs in case. I'm repeating myself, but we will never condone any cyber crime and black hat activity by ourselves, our community members and others. OSBot is a place where people should feel safe and comfortable. Sincerely, OSBot.org 28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iJodix Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Glad to hear that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adoxe Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Thanks for the announcement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyluur Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Good shit homie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dashboard Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Does this mean that the bot will be down for the next 24 hours? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobe Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Thank god I made the switch. #vino Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noah6131 Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 This was some good assurance for me and the community knowing that everyone is safe where we are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeterna Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 How can you improve the security of osbot to prevent this kind of stuff? Privacy is a big part of security Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BotRS123 Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Thanks for informing us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FortMinor Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 That's great to hear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer Maxi Posted July 3, 2013 Author Developer Share Posted July 3, 2013 Does this mean that the bot will be down for the next 24 hours? No the bot will be online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Good work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skype Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Well said, keep up the good work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Undecided Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 ah glad to hear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlowingJuice Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Good to see that you addressed the issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
