Spam Emailer takes Surfski.info down

A spam emailer caused not only our site, but the entire server along with some 500 other websites, to go offline for several hours yesterday.

One of the open-source components that make up the framework of the site, the Coppermine photo gallery, was attacked and converted into an email broadcast engine allowing the hackers to start spewing tens of thousands of spam emails. 

Our ISP had no choice but to shut the server down in order to stop the emails and repair the damage.   They then moved surfski.info to a more secure server.

Our apologies for that - and if you ever find a spam emailer, let them know how the world feels about them.