BEWARE There is a clickable phishing link being passed around Steam. As soon as you click on it, it sends itself to everybody on your friends list. Don't click on a link unless you're sure it's legit.

It sometimes looks like "Hey, I just took a picture of us playing together, here it is" or sometimes just the link.

If you're unsure, check with your friend before clicking.

Any questions, please visit the forums or check with an admin. Kthx.

Hey Newbs,

Our server bill is due soon and we've currently gotten ~80% of the needed funds to host all of our newb-tastic servers for the year. http://www.tf2newbs.com/forum/index.php/topic,12452.0.html

If you have a few extra bucks to drop our way, we'd really appreciate it. And don't forget, you can get a server reserve for $10+ donations, so it's a win-win!

To go directly to the donate page, go here:
http://www.tf2newbs.com/donate/donate.php

Any extra money above server costs go back to the website, servers, prizes, etc.

Thanks in advance!

Do you enjoy semi-competitive goofing off? Well then the Second Jaded Olympics is the perfect event for you! Engage in a series of mini-games, earn points, and win some serious loot! The games will be held June 19th-20th at 4:30 pst/7:30 est! Head over to the forums for more info and sign up today

A Newbs player managed to get access to the forums database recently, this intrusion was noticed this evening - the exploit used has been fixed, and the database changes the attacker made have been corrected.

If you are registered on the TF2Newbs forums and use that same password or secret question elsewhere I'd suggest changing them. I see evidence that the perp looked at the first 6000 records - I don't know if he kept a dump of them or not, but better safe than sorry.

The passwords are salted, and double hashed - [ md5(md5('password" . "salt")) ] - so it would be a pain in the ass to try to crack all of them (over 3800 salts) - but as said above - better safe than sorry. The secret question / answer is not encrypted.

The site will be down until noonish eastern time on Jan 8th, when the site comes back up I suggest everyone change their password on the forums also just as a precaution.

Sorry for the inconvience no other data was compromised as far as we can tell. If we determine any additional data was viewed I'll make another announcement.

If you have any questions please message Octo or Crap on steam.

http://www.tf2newbs.com/forum/index.php/topic,9810.msg145713.html

looks like it'll be 2fort and then Dustbowl. Starts in a little under 2 hours.

If you're interested, please sign up.