Support forum hacked

[Klemen]

Hi all,

As some of you have noticed this support forum has been hacked by someone who calls himself "Zec". I was going to write full of *****!/()&#%!%&$&%/"#$%/ about this person, but I wont.

Anyway, the support forum is back online.

Regards

[logar]

I just cant figure out why kiddies like zec lose their time doin such things

[Klemen]

I guess nobody knows what's going on inside their heads

Haven't had problems since March though (knock on wood), am upgrading phpBB now regularly to make sure any vulnerabilities are fixed.

[Dean Saliba]

I have had this done to me many times.

The way I dealt with it was to make sure I had a back up of my stuff so that when I got hacked I was able to restore it within the hour or so.

Eventually the idiot gets bored and moves on.

[Klemen]

Yea, now I try to regularly backup the forum and make sure I install all the recent updates. No problems since (knock in wood)...

[oliver]

Did he hack your admin, or just post all over the forum.

As your forum allows non members to post it is easy enough to do, look at me, I would recommend changing this so members have to sign up.

Second is to assign a couple of moderators to each topic.

Third is to go into server and make admin directory protected, and assign a user for this with username and password. This is solution to a lot of hacking problems.

I may not know php well, but I do know how to run websites.



Oliverread@aol.com

[Klemen]

Hi,

No the forum was hacked due to a bug in phpBB, I now update it regularly to it seems to be ok.

Regards