All,

Apparently, some hacker inserted what my web guy is calling "malicious code" into the speedonthewater.com. This is causing users to get everything from warning messages about the site to browsers denying access for the "safety" of their own systems.

First: Our web guy is clearing up the code issue right now. It should be resolved tonight.

Second: The site is no threat to anyone. The purpose of the hack is to scare visitors.

Third: Our web guy has figured out how it happened, which also means there's a good chance we can trace the hacker. To that end, I will pursue whoever is responsible for this with every legal means at my disposal. To say I am angry is to understate things a bit.

Thank your for your patience. In the meantime, if your are "warned" about the site rest assured the site is safe to visit. Unfortunately, at this time i don't think Google/Google Chrome will let you, and that's OK. It's doing what it's supposed to do. Stay tuned.

Best,

Matt Trulio

Time to tighten up security!

The same thing happened to my personal webpage, which resulted in my personal domain being put on Google "blacklist".... mine was a hijack that would reroute traffic to a webpage called africanartist dot com (I didn't want to create a link here..). I am so tired of dealing with hackers, spammers, and credit card thieves (I have an ecommerce site as well and if it isn't a stolen credit card number, consumers themselves have figured how to work the system to their advantage by filing BS chargeback).
Good luck, I hope you can track the ba$tards down.

Sorry to hear that, low psi. That sucks ... and now I can speak with some experience on how it feels. I have had many things stolen from me before, including a brand-new truck. I hated that, too, but at least it made sense. The lowlife gets something out of it other than a cheap thrill. But this? I have heard all the reasons why hackers hack, and I don't understand any of them.

I don't think we'll be able to track the hacker. That was just my wishful thinking and chest-thumping because I'm angry.

And 502 ... damn straight, security is going to get tighter on our end. It was by no means lax, but we know where the hole existed and it will not exist any longer.

By tomorrow, all should be well. Thank you all for your patience.

Our business site was hacked a couple of weeks ago...actually we've been having some code errors popping up for a couple of months prior to it being taken down... After doing a search of the hacker's tag it turned out to be some POS from Iran and they have their own website to post their conquest s.... fortunately we had a clean backup from several months ago.... it took our guys a couple of days to get it cleaned, secured and back online. I just wish there was some sorrt of offense weapon you could send an attack back to the hacker and ruin their day.

I have a friend in Houston, an atty who donates alot of his time to the American Legion. His office computer was hacked from the Phillipines with one of those pleas for help "in prison abroad, please wire money..." was sent to 300 legionnaires. Many of these guys are older and very appreciative of Brian and he found about $10,000 had been sent to the hacker. He used a private investigator network through friends in the Phillipines and found the hacker, who was threatened to literally have his balls removed if he didn't return the money. Approximately $5000 was recovered before the scumbag escaped and could not be relocated.

Who does stuff like this? I'd be angry too Matt..

RD

I was reading that site yesterday on the lap-top with no problems.

You know it's possible this hacker thought he was being a do-gooder and was making a stand for the environment. It was really reinforced to me last month how far the indoctrination goes when it comes to environmental issues in the schools. Our powerboat association received 2 letters written in about 5th grader style (of course they could have been high schoolers in some public schools around here) that basically listed all the nasty things powerboats did like throw trash and chemicals in the water. And then told us we should stop using our boats to stop all the pollution. Now when we had a letter writing assignment when I was in school we had to make sure that the grammar was correct, address and return address were all correct, etc. But in this case the grammar was apparently not even looked at and they specifically left off the return address of any kind. So what the teacher basically taught them was to be an anonymous bomb thrower for the cause. Much like half of the idiots on both sides of every internet argument. I can well imagine these misguided, Mountain Dew fed kids in a few years sitting at their computer and hacking Sea Ray or Carver's websites to stop the evil boat owners from throwing trash, oil, and chemicals into the water.