The forums are going to be down for a little while thanks to a few pranksters that are endlessly attempting some SQL injection attacks. While they aren’t getting anywhere since I’m OCD about security, it is driving the CPU and RAM usage for the server through the roof. You may have noticed the site was down a couple times in the past two days.
So instead of just dealing with it (I’ve banned the IP’s on the server firewall, but they just use different proxy servers), I’ve decided to take the forums offline for a while. They’ll be back before you know it, so sit tight for a bit and comment more on the main site 
Damn, who would have thought LN would be a target of pranksters? I hope they don’t have the password to my account or anything. Almost happened to me in another forum, but it happened to everybody else that had a ‘easy’ password.
Don’t worry, no one’s information was taken. I run a tight ship in terms of security… usually to a point where it breaks certain features, but I’d rather be safe than sorry.
if you are using phpbb forums, it will continue happening. it is bots and they never quit. i had my guild site banned from my host server because the bots crashed their whole server which had other client sites on it just from messing with our forums. you can tell it is getting bad when it says you have 400 guests online.
How can I abuse mod powers by banning these clowns if I have no place to ban them from?!