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AlanT

Hi Everyone,

we've been planning a migration to a newer and more capable forum site for some time now, and were just a few weeks away from kicking off this process. Unfortunately, a recent vulnerability has appeared in the wild, affecting vBulletin, the software we were using for the astaro.org communities site. Astaro.org was not compromised from this vulnerability, but as a precaution, we did take the site down, to protect our users. 

The site used a number of add-ons, and some custom plugins, which would need weeks of effort to convert and replace, if we were to upgrade the site and apply fixes for this vulnerability. As we were planning to migrate by that time anyway, we've made the decision to cut immediately to the new communities site, which has been running successfully for other Sophos products. To that end, we've spun up two forums quickly, where astaro.org users can again congregate. unfortunately, it will still take some time to complete the migration, so user accounts, and previously posted content has not yet been migrated. This process will take a matter of weeks to complete. In the interim, we will create a static view of the astaro.org, so content there will still be accessible. This should be completed later today.

This certainly wasn't the introduction we wanted for our new communities site, but we are excited about the new platform, and its capabilities. Please be patient as we step through this transition as quickly as we can. There will be some pain, but we will try our best to minimize it for you. 

Thanks everyone for your patience, and understanding!

Alan Toews

Technical Product Manager, Network Security, Sophos



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  • BAlfson  The way this was done was very non-Community like. I agree with you and I will take that up with the respective teams. But we, Sophos, identified a security issue that we felt was severe enough to have to take it offline. There was no ill-intention. We believe we are putting the user's security and protection at the forefront.

    You're correct that we will field more calls and submissions but we'll also do our best to provide the support while it is offline on this community. The Sophos support team is aware and are prepared. I hope that you and the other moderators will also lend a hand while we sort this out through this community in the meantime. Once more information is available, I'll provide updates

    I hope we can all heal from this and look to a more positive experience with your help and guidance.

    Billybob The feedback has had actions for the general community. You can see Ruckus showcasing some of those changes in the General Forums. I see you requested to remove liking of their own posts. Something that I can look into and I am guilty of this...sometimes I really like what I wrote. But really I don't see the harm in it to leave it for now. I'll put it in as a minor feature change request as this is not a configuration change that I can find. Thanks for the feedback!

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  • BAlfson  The way this was done was very non-Community like. I agree with you and I will take that up with the respective teams. But we, Sophos, identified a security issue that we felt was severe enough to have to take it offline. There was no ill-intention. We believe we are putting the user's security and protection at the forefront.

    You're correct that we will field more calls and submissions but we'll also do our best to provide the support while it is offline on this community. The Sophos support team is aware and are prepared. I hope that you and the other moderators will also lend a hand while we sort this out through this community in the meantime. Once more information is available, I'll provide updates

    I hope we can all heal from this and look to a more positive experience with your help and guidance.

    Billybob The feedback has had actions for the general community. You can see Ruckus showcasing some of those changes in the General Forums. I see you requested to remove liking of their own posts. Something that I can look into and I am guilty of this...sometimes I really like what I wrote. But really I don't see the harm in it to leave it for now. I'll put it in as a minor feature change request as this is not a configuration change that I can find. Thanks for the feedback!

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