If this has happened before I don't see why they're not trying to take steps to avoid this in the future. I imagine their codebase ought to be inspected, if that was the root of both hacks. Otherwise, they should consider updating their systems more frequently. Maybe they should reach out to their community, it's a sizable site that could probably receive help to strengthen security. Ah well.
Project Euler has been hacked
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Re: Project Euler has been hacked
#32"Es gibt schon schöne Trotteln!" (Armin Wolf)
Ganz genau ;)
Re: Project Euler has been hacked
#33One of my side-projects was to convert all of Project Euler into a straightforward offline flat text file: http://kmkeen.com/local-euler/ At the time of the last hacking incident, this was pretty much the only mirror of PE. Since then the textfile has been updated and includes some (hashed) answers.
Thanks for doing this!
Project Euler people, there's no shame in unbundling your problem set and your web app. Actually, those are two different projects, so unbundling them would be technically sweet. Release your problems on GitHub or wherever. Do the webapp as a related project.
keenerd, any chance you saved the HTML for the problems as well? If so could you release it? As nice as it is to have text versions of the problems, I'm suspicious some things were lost in the transition, e.g. if they used italics anywhere.
Re: Project Euler has been hacked
#34SAD! Wish Project Euler quick recovery
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#35Took this screenshot last night: https://i.imgur.com/pl22srz.png I would have reported it to someone at project euler but couldn't find any contact information beyond a link to an inactive forum.
Yea, I saw it too.
Re: Project Euler has been hacked
#36It's back online!
Re: Project Euler has been hacked
#37It's back online!
Can't login though.
Re: Project Euler has been hacked
#38Again? Why do people do this? It'd probably be easier to export everything to static HTML with solutions hidden, and serve just that.
How would that help? If someone hacks the server they can change it to serve whatever they want.
Because a static HTML server can't be hacked unless there's some vulnerability in Nginx/Apache/whatever HTTP server (which are rare and a very big deal).