Server Optimizations and Issues!

[Zendiver]

Please be patient today as I am doing some work on the server to include more security programs and optimizations. We may have some downtime throughout the day as we are working on tightening everything up. With all the hacks to bigger sites lately, we want to make sure that we are completely secure of any and all threats.

Also, you may notice that there will be a lot more spiders crawling zendiving.com. This is due to my recent SEO optimization, validating all pages to make them XHTML compliant (a lot of work and recoding) as well as generating a zendiving.com sitemap.

Thanks for everyone's patience and rest assured we are safe.
-Robert

[Zendiver]

NOTICE: If you have used the Zendiving Virtual Terminal today to make payments for the trips, then you will have to redo it. With the server issues today that I was taking care of, the software that I was running NULLed all outside PHP scripts, therefore not completing the process.

Sorry for the inconveinence and thank you for you patience.

[Zendiver]

UPDATE: As a lot of you were aware of, zendiving was taken down early this morning. The reason was due to a malicious script that we found. This script was a backdoor for hackers and it was actually spamming emails left and right...to the sum of almost 10K. It is has been an ongoing mission, especially with all of the sites being hacked recently, to make sure that our site was hacker free and secure. To make sure that we collected and corrected all of the issues, we elected to take the site completely down and resolve the issue. We were lucky...we didn't have our site tampered with, pursue'. A lot of others running this script were not so lucky...their entire site was deleted from their servers. Thanks to the quick thinking and actions of our server admin, we have now corrected and updated the software. The software in question was our Chat Room. There was a flaw in the integration script that allowed hackers to come in the backway and wreak havoc. We have updated the software, made some changes to it and tighten up security even more.

I am sorry that this has to happen, but as long as there are hackers out there, we all have to be on our toes - and WE ARE. Thanks for everyone patience and understanding, but as you can see, we are back up and running, securly.