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Forums.picasa.com taken down for maintainence

Monday, December 06, 2004

Picasa is a recently acquired photo editing tool from google, forums.picasa.com helps people support on queries regarding picasa photo editing software,

recently the picasa site was under hacker attack, news here

Google’s Picasa Hacked Via Security Hole
Google’s Picasa was allegedgly hacked into over the weekend. Zone-H reports that Picasa was victim to a security hole in its forum. Picasa is a software for managing photos, the company has been acquired by Google earlier this year.
More here: searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=1116

and here,

zone-h.org/en/defacements/mirror/id=1775926

Screen shot of the hacking attempt from zone-h.org



The picasa forum now redirects to google groups beta version, groups-beta.google.com/group/picasa , this hacking was more probable because of the security hole in their forum,

A guy named Prieni asks about this in the picasa groups,

Hey there,
what happened to the Picasa forum? I tried to access
it as per normaland got the Picasa homepage. I thought "hmm, server must be down
or so"and tried again later. Now I tried it again and clicked on the Forumlink
and ended up here. Very confusing. So my question is: Can we stillget into the
forum? Or will this Google Group be a replacement? If so,what happens to the
knowledge base reflected in the 'old' forum?A very confused (where are the
emoticons?)Prieni

Answer from google,


Hi Prieni,
We had to take the forums down temporarily, and we wanted to give thenew Groups beta a whirl so people would have a place to go. =) Wemay return to the old forum style, or we might keep up the Group, buteither way the old data and knowledgebase should be back up onlinesoon.
I guess we're back to retro emoticons now...astro.umd.edu/~marshall/smileys.html- how 1993!
Lorna from google,

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