Wikifortio and file description problems – solved and fixed!

Hello everyone,
Yesterday we found out that our partner service, Wikifortio, had a security loophole that allowed hackers to change the description of the download and protect the download with the password. The downloadable file itself was not changed (the loophole doesn`t allow that). We switched to another download facility and eliminated the loophole.

We are sorry for this inconvenience and hope that we will avoid such a situation in future. Please notice that we never password-protect our downloads and will never do this in future.
Also, it`s absolutely impossible to change the file, so, as inconvenient as the situation was, the actual file was not threatened.

We will do our best to ensure that Giveaway of the Day stays safe and secure for its visitors, and we hope to see you again here tomorrow.

Update: well, some great news for all of us – Wikifortio problem was fixed AND tested – no loophole now. Also, we received an analysis report from the Wikifortio team and it seems that the loophole was in fact minor, just like we expected – there were no ways to change the file itself.
We will switch to Wikifortio tomorrow and Wikifortio team will monitor the downloads security to make our service safe for all our visitors.

Yours,
Slava and GAOTD team.