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We are moving the physical location of the server tonight at approximately 10pm CST. The site will most likely only be down for around 30 minutes, but it may be down for 1-2 hours. This is the last planned change for our server, and should result in a slightly more reliable site due to better networking, colder temperature, and more reliable power. Thank you for your understanding.

Unless if you've been hiding under a rock the past week, you've noticed that our HDB has been getting quite a bit of attention on news sites, twitter, IRC, and mailing lists. As a result, our site is under heavy load (right after I downgraded the server, FML). I wanted to make a news post to clear up a few things about the HDB - as there has been quite a bit of confusion and even some bitching about it.
The HDB's main purpose is to preserve hacker history and give a list of hackers and their public exploits. With that being said, we've had various crew members add entries since 2008. As a result, some of the details are somewhat out of date and many people have yet to be added. We are doing the best that we can, but we have very limited resources. We are not the FBI, we do not have stacks of government money and a network of snitches to provide information to us. If you know of somebody that should be added, or details that should be added - please contact scryptz0 ([email protected]). You will know that the HDB is complete when I am in it. To set the example and not media whore, I have instructed the crew that I cannot be added until everybody else has been. I hope this post shines some additional light on the current state and purpose of the HDB.

jip has released his first tutorial, entitled "Stack Smashing On A Modern Linux System". It's a modern look (and spin) on exploitation that was very popular in the early days of SX. Please take a look at the tutorial, located at https://www.soldierx.com/tutorials/Stack-Smashing-Modern-Linux-System. Happy holidays!

It is with great honor that I would like to announce the High Council's decision to promote both jip and scryptz0 to the status of full crew members of SOLDIERX. jip is now the Tutorials Curator and scryptz0 is now the HDB Curator. As with all members promoted to the status of full crew, we hope that jip and scryptz0 will continue their efforts and show the same enthusiasm and workmanship that they showed during their inductee status. Congratulations to both of you!

Server upgrades are finally complete. A number of issues caused these upgrades to go much slower than anticipated, so we apologize for the delay. All of our annual contests were originally planned to be released today, but due to these delays they will be released shortly (most likely this weekend). Thank you again for your patience!

We will be experienced some downtime today and in the next few weeks as we do a series of server upgrades. Some of these upgrades are being done for lower power consumption, where as others are being done to get more speed out of the site. I will make an announcement when all of the upgrades are complete.

Congratulations everybody, our community is now at over 8,000 active user accounts. Technically speaking we just had our 9,523 sign up - but around 1,500 of those were determined to be inactive/spammers and have had their accounts removed. We actively prune accounts that spam as well as accounts that never log into the site. I can't wait to see our active user list grow to over 9,000 - but 8,000 is a decent accomplishment for now. We're currently growing by about 250 active members every month. Thanks to everybody who has been active in our community and to everybody that has helped to spread the word about soldierx.com.

Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know that the third pentesting tutorial: Pentesting Tutorial Part 3 - Vulnerability Scanning and Authentication is finished. The tutorial is located Here. Up next tutorial 4 exploitation and escalation.

Amp here, as some people may already know Defcon is taking place in Las Vegas and several members of our crew are attending. If you happen to see anybody wearing our shirt at the event, give them a hollar. Meanwhile, Nu11By73 has completed his first two Pentesting tutorials (Located here and here respectively) with a third tutorial currently in the works. For those interested in learning about Pentesting, I do recommend reading them.

Last, but certainly not least, Pirrup is currently in the hospital for surgery. On behalf of the SX Crew, I wish him a good surgery and a fast recovery.

Unfortunately it does not look like anybody will be getting the free pass to Defcon. The mining numbers were extremely low, with the winner being the anonymous sx account (default for the bitcoin miner .rar file on the site). If you'd like to up the competition, please follow the directions at 2012 Bitcoin Mining Contest. The full numbers (from top to bottom) are as follows: sx - 5973, rat - 2005, mrkoala - 5, joka - 0, jerbo - 0, jason - 0, c0d3inj - 0. Thanks to all of the anonymous people who generated bitcoins for us, feel free to register an account and win the contest before the end of 2012.