You can see the details here:
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/4329361/

See: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/4065760/

Announcing FurArtist.com!

We are pleased to announce that we are now live in beta. FurArtist is a furry
artist commissioning service website making it easy for furry artist to open
commission blocks and for other members to commission slots within those blocks.

FurArtist is a service that is made by furries for furries. During our beta
release stages we will be taking feedback from the community to better tailor
the site's features to the needs of the community. For that, we need your
feedback! You can use our on-site forums to provide your feedback the the
development admins.

We hope you enjoy the site and look forward to building the site into a
useful and much needed service for the furry community.

FurArtist is composed of the following features.

User Accounts: Artists and non-artists alike can create user accounts of
FurArtist and build their artist profiles. This will include such details as if
you accept mature commissions, what fetish artwork you will/wont do, and general
commissioning and payment details.

Artist Blocks: Artists will be able to open blocks with defined commission
slots, price details, date ranges etc. These blocks can later be filtered by
people looking to commission an artist. When the block is open other members
will be able to commission slots in the block. The artist will then be able to
accept, deny, request information etc. All transaction details will be logged
for both the artist and person requesting the slot to audit. Once a slot request
is approved by the artist, the slot will be added to the artists queue.

In addition, during the slot request the requester will be able to upload
reference artwork and provide details about what they would like completed in
the commission. They will also be able to attach fursona profiles to the
commission. More details on fursonas is listed in the next section.

Fursona Profiles: All members will be able to create fursona profiles that
will include details about the fursona appearance and can build color pallets to
link to the fursona. These color pallets can later be referenced by and artist
during the commission process and the artist can even download the pallet in
photoshop format.


Welcome all furries to your new dedicated furry artwork commissioning service website! FurArtist @ FurArtist.com

FurryUnited Networks has been contacted by RainFurrest Registration to hold an art contest on all of it's network websites! All submissions have the chance to be featured in official convention printed media!

What: RainFurrest Staff is looking for artists to submit a single entry to be used as one of 4 badge inserts for the convention's official badges. The submission needs to be exactly 4.25" x 3.75" or 1293 x 1125 pixels. Your artwork can be of anything, but matching the convention theme "Warehouse Furteen" (a take on the television series "Warehouse 13") is preferred. Some ideas include but are not limited to: science fiction cop, artifact hunter, mad science. A list of artifacts and gadgets used in the show can be found here.

Prize: All selected winning entries will be used as the official badge inserts and credit will be given on the insert as well as printed in the convention book with your details (see the 'How' section below to see what information will be printed). For any winning member that is also attending the convention, a free ticket the the ice cream social will be provided to you.

When: Submission has been extended to 8/11/2012.

How: Submissions will be accepted starting immediately and need to be sent via e-mail to registration@rainfurrest.com. You will need to include the following information along with your submission: Your artwork, real name (first and last), fan name, the name you want to receive credit under, website or public contact, permission to be used in the convention book (if your submission is not chosen), whether or not you will be attending the convention this year, and optionally the foloowing: which FurryUnited website you are submitting from (this would be either MyFur Network or BabyFur.ME) and your MyFur Network or BabyFur.ME login e-mail address. You may use the following form along with your entry:

Send to: registration[at]rainfurrest.com
First Name:
Last Name:
Fan Name:
Credit Name:
Website or other public contact information:
Permission to be used in the convention book if not chosen as a winner (yes or no):
Attending RainFurrest 2012 (yes of no)?

Although this contest is open to anyone, if you are a member of MyFur Network or BabyFur.ME please include these details:

*(Not Required)* FurryUnited Contest Website: MyFur Network or BabyFur.ME
*(Not Required)* Your MyFur Network or BabyFur.ME login e-mail address:

Official details can be found on FurryUnited's network websites:
http://myfur.net/forums/topic/376/
https://babyfur.me/forums/topic/613/ (requires babyfur.me membership to view)

Convention information can be found at: rainfurrest.org. For any additional questions regarding this contest, please send all inquires to registration[at]rainfurrest.com

Good luck everyone!~

To all those we kept bugging me about never uploading a single thing to FA.. after all these years.. The deed has been done, the seal broken, ... yeah.. >.>

All sites are online and running on a shinny new dedicated server.

This time far more security policies are in place and backup restores (if ever needed again) will be able to be completed on the fly.

The new dedicated server has taken the place of the two VPS servers that we were using before.

I would like to say thank you to  Faxcub for providing an excellent hosting solution for us with https://stealthyhosting.com/ and helping to get all the sites back online.

MyFur network ("server") was recently hacked ("rooted") due to a security hole ("exploit") in it's Web Hosting Manager ("WHM" or "cpanel") software. This was done some hours before it was discovered. I discovered that the server as it happened on Tuesday night at ~10PM via an SMS sent to myself from the server, basically stating that "a new user was created", so of course I hurried home, leaving the normal Tuesday night furmeet I was attending without saying good bye to anyone (mostly because I had no idea where they went of to, ha). Anyway.. so here's what happened:

First thing first: I removed the user. But it was already too late. Then a minute later I got an email from cpanel again (SMS Failed, was too big) that told me that some code was executed @ the root level. This code wasn't so bad, and I was able to clean it up and stop the user (the script had added added one of my legit users to the wheel, in order to execute this code via php under that user's www directory, and pulled that off by making a change to the global php.ini.).

So next: I executed my backup scripts in this order:
all mysql databases, then all files (only as far as www level).
I kept an eye on the files, but more importantly on the databases.

Surprisingly MySql remained untouched through this whole thing. But as I tried to combat the hacker (a "Bot")[1], it got nasty.

Up until this time (about 18 hrs in)[2] MyFur, AZFurs, and all other sites remained untouched. I think what triggered it was my use of the command "shh" and "ftp" and "passwd", which had been rewritten to "something else", this is where it got bad.

Long story short[2]: I hit the trigger to melt MySQL and then the files shortly after.

The good news is, we're moving to a new server! This time a fully dedicated server, and away from GoDaddy! *this is exciting btw*

The ETA on the move is 3-5 days (prob much sooner, just wanna get the security right the first time around this time). But everything in [2] will be explained in more detail later.. I have to get going now >.<