Q. What do Roadworks Online and the United Nations have in common?

A. Both have had Russian hackers attack their sites!

On May 16th Roadworks Online fell victim to Russian-based hackers. The result of this was that some data was destroyed, plus malicious material was planted on our site, causing a potential problem for our visitors.

On recognising the attack we immediately restored our database from a clean back-up and suspended our public entry forms, as we attempted to find our vulnerability.

We're happy to advise that we were able to determine this quickly and secure our site. Being perhaps a little paranoid, we did however continue to restrict our public entry forms for community notices, gigs and competition entries as a precautionary measure.

Now that we are confident that we have addressed the vulnerability we have reinstated full functionality to all of our sites.

We'll be back on schedule with our regular fortnightly newsletter from next Thursday, however in the interim we would like to thank our advertisers and supporters for your patience over this most frustrating period.

We have also extended the competitions below, so get your entry in over the weekend and good luck!!