I had a new experience in being a webmaster this last week +. ABCbirding was hacked by someone who inserted code to use the site to send malicious emails to lots of people leading to the site being taken down. It took some time but I’ve managed to get the site back up and have taken some precautions to try to prevent this from happening again. The “attacks” were not aimed at users of the ABCbirding site and IU have not heard that any of you got the emails.

For now the feature allowing members to post to the site via email is halted as an added security measure. Sorry about that.

Anyway let’s hope this tool continues to work for us and has no further problems.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Ed