06/12/04 - The Ptidej Web site under attack
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The Ptidej Web site has been attacked by malicious people who created fake users (with fake portraits) to propagate spams. Unfortunately (and suspiciously) this attack happened right at the beginning of the session, during the high time of grant applications. The IT Security people took measures to prevent spamming by blocking access to the site.
Also unfortunately, this choice has impacted the quality of the research and teaching of the participants to the Ptidej project, even though this was not a security threat and it has been promptly corrected (cf. this page)
Finally, thanks to the kind understanding and efforts of our director, Jean Meunier, the Web site is back on-line! Hopefully, there won't be any more problems in the future since the site was cleaned up, upgraded, and updated. (Let's keep our fingers crossed! ;-))
(Due to the attack the Web site is now hosted on a computer with a different name: "souper", which means "diner" in Quebec and "supper" in France...)
