Convo Image Upload Limit
An issue with uploading files larger than 1mb caused the socket to Convo to disconnect. The file size limit is 1mb still but now instead of disconnecting, Omniscient has adjusted the code to notify you with an error. In the future, the plan is to increase the limit to 3mb without any issues to support photos taken from mobile devices.
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Background Color Picker
HackForums now has a color picker to change the background color. The color picker is located at the bottom of each page and offers three colors: black, dark grey, grey. It's also stored as a site cookie so you'll be able to modify the background color via cookie if you wish to customize further. Also, if you missed it the change previous to this change, the background image was replaced with a solid color. See Omni's thread here regarding that change.
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Closed Account CSS Change
Previously, closed accounts had a username color close to the background (#333). Omniscient has updated the CSS to be a grey (#CCC) color with a strikethrough line to indicate the account has been closed. Here's a before and after: Hydra to Hydra
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New Hack Forums Logo After a Vote
Cyam designed a new logo which was liked by the majority of the voters in the poll. Omniscient has since updated the HF logo to Cyam's creation.
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Bytes Bag Award
Bytes Bag award price has been increased from β 15,000 bytes to β 20,000 bytes.
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Site Statistics

Total

• Posts: 5,243,309 (+0.44% - +22,829)
  
• Threads: 61,607,381 (+0.12% - +76,312)
  
• Members: 6,217,989 (+0.1% - +6,372)
  

Average

• Daily Posts: 11,002.31 (-0.76% - -83.96)
  
• Daily Threads: 1,110.46 (-0.78% - -8.71)
  
• Daily New Members: 936.39 (-0.45% - -4.2)
  
• Posts Per Member: 11.75 (-0.34% - -0.04)
  
• Replies Per Thread: 1.19 (~)
  

Ban Statistics

Last Week's Bans

• Staff Bans: 9
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• Vacation Bans: 1
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• Combined Bans: 10
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Forum Counts

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• Notable Sections
  • RANF Threads: 76,518 (+0.08% - +64)
    
  • RANF Posts: 1,221,299 (+0.08% - +1,024)
    
  • Lounge Threads: 257,263 (+0.25% - +647)
    
  • Lounge Posts: 4,621,119 (+0.43% - +20,004)
    

• Hack
  • Threads: 854,640 (+0.13% - +1,134)
    
  • Posts: 8,035,222 (+0.1% - +8,028)
    

• Life
  • Threads: 971,428 (+85.08% - +446,559)
    
  • Posts: 13,382,617 (+52.83% - +4,626,085)
    

• Tech
  • Threads: 170,722 (-24.35% - -54,949)
    
  • Posts: 1,824,694 (-2.37% - -44,209)
    

• Code
  • Threads: 227,088 (+23.25% - +42,836)
    
  • Posts: 1,898,532 (+23.15% - +356,858)
    

• Game
  • Threads: 117,474 (-73.07% - -318,709)
    
  • Posts: 824,917 (-81.51% - -3,635,563)
    

• Groups
  • Threads: 10,642 (-73.58% - -29,642)
    
  • Posts: 116,092 (-73.76% - -326,354)
    

• Web
  • Threads: 20,478 (-77.15% - -69,154)
    
  • Posts: 147,645 (-77.13% - -497,904)
    

• GFX
  • Threads: 141,962 (+0.03% - +36)
    
  • Posts: 1,055,503 (+0.02% - +211)
    

• Market
  • Threads: 1,233,591 (+0.15% - +1,849)
    
  • Posts: 11,055,749 (+0.17% - +19,006)
    

• Money
  • Threads: 156,155 (+0.18% - +279)
    
  • Posts: 2,031,458 (+0.25% - +5,004)
    

Membership Counts

Groups (Click to View)

• Profit
             
  • 6 Members (+2)
    
• The Marketers
             
  • 70 Members (+50)
    
• Equilibrium
             
  • 44 Members (~)
    
• Money Makers
             
  • 22 Members (+1)
    
• Refactor
             
  • 18 Members (+3)
    
• Revenge
             
  • 7 Members (-1)
    
• Sociopaths
             
  • 12 Members (-15)
    
• Legends
             
  • 52 Members (-3)
    
• Pink LSZ
             
  • 100 Members (+4)
    
• Eden
             
  • 35 Members (-2)
    
• Succubus
             
  • 3 Members (~)
    
• Blacklisted
             
  • 13 Members (-2)
    
• Lions League
             
  • 20 Members (~)
    
• COINED
             
  • 26 Members (-2)
    
• Infamous
             
  • 25 Members (-4)
    
• The Brotherhood
             
  • 51 Members (-1)
    
• Allegiance
             
  • 16 Members (+1)
    
• Wolfpack
             
  • 37 Members (-1)
    
• Warriors
             
  • 30 Members (+1)
    

Groups For Sale

• Olympians - $5,000
  
• The Marketers - $10,000
  

Leadership Changes

• COINED added leader Komodo
  

Group Open Recruitments

• COINED
  
• HF Wiki Team
  
• Revenge
  
• Warriors
  
• W4TCHL1ST
  

Group Buy-Ins

• Money Masters
  
• Revenge
  

Group Information Threads

• COINED
  
• Drip
  
• Legends
  
• Warriors
  

Group Changes

• Olympians has been reinstated after Zeus was unbanned
  
• Refactor has been sold to Porn
  

Crews for Sale

• Animates - $425
  
• Clownians - $425
  
• Crypto Club - $500
  

Crew Open Recruitments

• Sponsor
  

Crew Changes

• No changes to report
  

*As of the Monday prior to release.

User News

• . [mention=4993290] reached 100 Booyah! points for their business rating
  
• . Pastoree reached 100 Booyah! points for their business rating
  
• . Stanley has a new avatar, Skynet phase one complete
  
• . Prettykitty reached 2,000 popularity
  
• . Mount reached 1,000 popularity
  
• . Quire reached 1,000 popularity
  
• . skull reached 100 Booyah! points for their business rating
  
• . Migos is the Member of the Month for August
  
• . DashPHP reached 5,000 posts
  
• . Zeus is back after being closed since 2022/06/02
  
• . Gary , our ghost writer, has finally reached 1,000 popularity
  

Bans

• . [mention=2821850] was banned for one month by webdev77 for "Post/bump/delete," returning 2022/09/28
  
• . Blunt was banned for six months by Omniscient for "Account under Investigation," but was adjusted to a permanent ban with "Ban Evasion" as the reason. Taking a deeper look, Blunt was banned shortly for "Account under Investigation" by [mention=2774521] back in July. This was followed by another ban for "Trolling Fool".
  
• . SIM-3343347 was banned for one month by Omniscient for "Convo spam," returns 2022/10/06
  

Vacations

• . iNviZ is on a vacation ban for three months, returning 2022/11/28
  
• . SIM-2501407 is on a vacation ban for one month, returning 2022/10/03
  
• . Nachfolger is on a vacation ban for six months, returning 2023/03/05
  
• . Demize is on a vacation ban for a month, returning 2022/10/14
  
• . redpois0n is on a vacation ban for six months, returning 2023/03/16
  
• . [mention=1441945] is on a vacation ban for a month, returning 2022/10/18
  

Closures

• . Oneiroi was banned for 6 months originally by webdev77 but was then closed shortly after with reason "Fake Contest"
  
• . Bumface was closed, unknown reason
  

Awards

• . account_ received the Medal of Honor award for reaching LVL 50 in Hack Game
  
• . SourceCode101 received the LGBQT award with the reason "After you saw 10k of cocks it belongs to you."
  
• . CrazyRDP received the Hustler award with the reason "Deserving of this because of your serious hustle."
  
• . Raymond Reddington received the Golden Content award with the reason "Your blog articles have earned you the Golden Content award."
  
• . еlixir received the Diamond award with the reason "Not everyone adds value to HF like you do."
  
• . [mention=4227846] received the Dunce award with the reason "For defending the smell of poo."
  
• . OxaByte received the Cool award with the reason "You're cooler than people think."
  

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Writ3rs Rewards
I'll be handing out the rewards once I finish coding the tool that helps me track/count who is getting what. It's a lot more work than I expected to manually keep track. Don't worry though, everyone will get what they earned.

Your VPN Has Already Been Hacked
Feel free to read this blog post if you're interested for more details. They discuss the issues with VPNs using OpenSSL and the ability to easily locate public-facing VPN devices. 60% of Fortune 1000 companies use a common hostname for their VPN environment. Over 2,200 known exploits for OpenSSL are available via Metasploit that can be used against VPN environments that are exposed to the public or haven't been updated to recent versions.
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Microsoft Teams Stores Auth Tokens in Cleartext
Microsoft Teams has come under a troubling spotlight in regards to how security of user accounts is handled. The application is developed under the Electron framework which is just a browser window and does not support encryption by default. Security analysts have discovered multiple vulnerabilities that would allow a threat actor with local access to steal the tokens and log in to the target's account bypassing MFA. Due to the native limitations of Electron, the security analysts recommended to use the browser version which provides additional protections against token theft. Microsoft spokesperson commented "The technique described does not meet our bar for immediate servicing as it requires an attacker to first gain access to a target network," on 2022/09/14.
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Patreon Reportedly Lays Off Entire Security Team
CyberScoop has reported that several former employees of Patreon have confirmed layoffs and for their entire security team. Patreon has since denied the allegations and claim that five employees have been laid off only, "As part of a strategic shift of a portion of our security program, [...] parted ways with five employees." Patreon's Senior VP of Engineering stated the company isn't "scaling back investing in our security programs" and plan to invest further as they grow.
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Uncle From Another World Anime Delays Episode 8 Indefinitely Due to COVID-19
The anime adaption for Isekai Ojisan, also known as "Uncle From Another World," has been indefinitely delayed after increased reports of COVID-19 infections within various studios involved in the production of the anime were been reported. Due to this sudden increase in infections, the anime will air reruns of episodes 3-6 throughout September. This will not be the first time that the anime has had to halt its production. Episode 5 was meant to air on Aug. 3, but did not due so until Aug. 17, due to a similar situation with COVID-19.
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Crunchyroll Bought A Popular Anime Video Store, Removed Its Hentai
One of the leading streaming services in anime, Crunchyroll, which was purchased from AT&T by Sony Pictures Entertainment back in 2021, has recently expanded its company by purchasing an anime retail site by the name of "RightStufANIME.com" which up until Sept. 2 had erotica merchandise for sale. Fakku, a previous partner to RightStufANIME, and unarguably one of the biggest names in the anime merchandise world when it comes to adult-oriented anime material, recently decided to speak their mind stating on Twitter, "This is a massive blow Right Stuf was a big account for FAKKU and one of the only retailers that really embraced 18+ anime/manga. Not good" in reply to Crunchyroll's announcement. Crunchyroll then announced any pre-orders and unfulfilled orders that were made before their purchase of RightStuffANIME will now be moved over to an upcoming partner site in the works named, "Ero Anime Store." The new erotic website is currently not live yet but has already received some backlash from the internet. >>Source

Nippon TV Finalizes First Large-Scale Anime Deal with Netflix
Nippon TV Network, which was founded back in 1952, announced on Aug. 29 that they will be collaborating with the streaming service Netflix once again, to stream 13 selected anime to countries outside of Asia. Some anime, which have already been added to over 100 countries on Sept. 1, include:

• Death Note
  
• Death Note: Relight 1 (Death Note Relight - Visions of a God)
  
• Death Note: Relight 2 (Death Note Relight 2 - L's Successors)
  
• From Me to You
  
• From Me to You 2nd Season
  
• 1997 Berserk
  
• Parasyte -the maxim-
  
• NANA
  
• Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting!
  
• Monster
  

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(Sep 18, 2022 07:52 PM)Blazin Wrote:  Not a good edition, didn't have blazins 3 diamonds from hell. Biased asf.  😤

(Sep 18, 2022 07:56 PM)Gary Wrote:  Donation awards below $500 aren't notable. Private deals made don't count in my eyes personally!

(Sep 18, 2022 07:58 PM)Blazin Wrote:  What makes you think it's below $500?  Don't assume.  🙂

(Sep 18, 2022 07:59 PM)Gary Wrote:  $75 award. You did a private deal to get more than 1 which you were obviously charged more than what the 3 awards would have cost.

(Sep 18, 2022 08:01 PM)Blazin Wrote:  Assumptions make a ass of yourself & nobody asked you anyways, I was more posting it for the OP. Who are you again?

(Sep 18, 2022 08:00 PM)Pikachu Wrote:  Great edition but im sad, the crews part didn't include my report https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=6200455&pid=61635741#pid61635741

(Sep 18, 2022 08:01 PM)Blazin Wrote:  Assumptions make a ass of yourself & nobody asked you anyways, I was more posting it for the OP. Who are you again?

Quote:Awards valued under $500 will not be accepted. If a single set of awards total to $500+, this is the only case it would be acceptable - e.g. buying 10 Heart of Generosity ($50) in one go

(Sep 18, 2022 08:01 PM)Blazin Wrote:  Assumptions make a ass of yourself & nobody asked you anyways, I was more posting it for the OP. Who are you again?