Ye' old general discussion board. Basically, for everything that isn't covered elsewhere. Come here to shoot the breeze, shoot your mouth off, or whatever suits your fancy. This forum is not for asking programming related questions.
it appears a few russian hackers ran some exploitations or something last night.. we got it band-aided at this point, we're updating several other systems to fix it good.
Unfortunately php bbcode tags have been affected by the changes. New posts should be fine but older ones aren't being formatted properly. Hopefully this will be sorted out soon.
theda wrote:Probably because they spoke upside down English?
No, thats the Australians.
The site was briefly redirected to a .ru site - russian, and the text was entirely cyrillic (also russian). Of course, it could have been a notrealcountrian, who wanted to be funny and redirect it at a Russian site for no particular reason.
i dont understand peoples hatred of this forum. this is the second major attack iv seen since i joined here and its like why, we do nothing to anyone and provide help to everyone that wants it. gah i hate people
Is the problem phpBB related or the server. If phpBB is there any details on the phpBB web site (couldn't see any yesterday). Are there any fixes (I know of a least customer of my firm that uses phpBB and although not responsible for it would like to inform them of any possible hack prevention).
What russian site just out of curiosity? I speak Russian, might shed some light. If it was something generic, like aport.ru or rambler.ru, then no. But I'd still be interesting if you posted the site it redirected to.