Aug 31, 2016, 01:58 PM
Good day community.
Today we have forced the forums into a new level of security. Due to recent events, you can no longer post images from foreign-untrusted sources. Malicious images can be used as a backdoor ip-logger, thus our forums will only allow trusted images.
If your signature, remote-avatar or forum-post contains an untrusted image, it will not be loaded.
So make sure to only use a trusted hoster for images.
Since we have carefully checked all image-hosters used on this forums, you shouldn't notice any issues.
Trusted hosters:
Want another one added? Feel free to suggest it below.
In addtion, we coded a link watcher.
Introducing the Limelight - Link watcher
As with our image protection, non-trusted links will fire up a notice when you click on them.
An attacker could easily manipulate a link to have you forwarded to an ip-logger/bad site.
For example:
https://limelightgaming.net/forums/thread-12097
Now click on that link above and you will understand.
As you can see, links can be manipulated by adding a tittle on 'em.
While this is still possible, you will receive a notification and the real URL is printed.
It is up to you whether you enter that site or not.
Currently only *.limelightgaming.net is whitelisted to skip the notification. We might expand on this in the future. For now better be safe than sorry.
Please note: We cannot protect you at 100%. Simply don't click on a link that might be masked as short-url.
Especially links such as goo.gl are used to redirect you to an ip-logger.
Today we have forced the forums into a new level of security. Due to recent events, you can no longer post images from foreign-untrusted sources. Malicious images can be used as a backdoor ip-logger, thus our forums will only allow trusted images.
If your signature, remote-avatar or forum-post contains an untrusted image, it will not be loaded.
So make sure to only use a trusted hoster for images.
Since we have carefully checked all image-hosters used on this forums, you shouldn't notice any issues.
Trusted hosters:
- Discord (discordapp.com, discord.com, discord.gg)
- Steam (steamuserimages...akamai, steamstatic.com, steampowered.com, steamcommunity.com, steamusercontent.com)
- ts3index.com
- Print Screen (prnt.sc, prntscr.com)
- Dropbox (dropboxusercontent.com, dropbox.com, dropboxstatic.com)
- vgy.me
- puu.sh
- photobucket.com
- pinimg.com
- tinypic.com
- gravatar.com
- tumblr.com
- screenshot.net
- aulod.com
- cloudflare.com
- imgur.com
- giphy.com
- wikimedia.org
- gametracker.com
- gyazo.com
- speedtest.net
Want another one added? Feel free to suggest it below.
In addtion, we coded a link watcher.
Introducing the Limelight - Link watcher
As with our image protection, non-trusted links will fire up a notice when you click on them.
An attacker could easily manipulate a link to have you forwarded to an ip-logger/bad site.
For example:
Now click on that link above and you will understand.
As you can see, links can be manipulated by adding a tittle on 'em.
While this is still possible, you will receive a notification and the real URL is printed.
It is up to you whether you enter that site or not.
Currently only *.limelightgaming.net is whitelisted to skip the notification. We might expand on this in the future. For now better be safe than sorry.
Please note: We cannot protect you at 100%. Simply don't click on a link that might be masked as short-url.
Especially links such as goo.gl are used to redirect you to an ip-logger.