[Mild Rant] phpBB hackers

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Ambush Commander
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Post by Ambush Commander »

Hmm... that doesn't sound like a mere kiddy hack job. Did you reinstall the system?
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Nathaniel
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That's the hosts' job... they said they took care of it. Basically the cracker replaced any files named index*.* with "by Thehacker". The host fixed the security exploit, then wrote a script that replaced index*.* files with the files from the backups. It didn't have anything to do with phpBB. I didn't notice that it affected everything else, though, because that particular site just has a phpBB forum on it and nothing else.
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Post by MrPotatoes »

use phorum
these aren't hackers but you did get hacked
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

You know, I have found that some hackers target certain hosts. iPowerweb is one of them. I got porked a few times with them before I ditched them iPowerweb has the worst server security I have ever experienced and they are doing nothing to make it better.

I would guess some other popular hosts are targets too. Not sure why anyone would want to do this to people, but then again, nobody can really explain why idiots do what they do.
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Post by Benjamin »

MrPotatoes wrote:use phorum
these aren't hackers but you did get hacked
LOL Oxymoron
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Post by MrPotatoes »

astions wrote:
MrPotatoes wrote:use phorum
these aren't hackers but you did get hacked
LOL Oxymoron
well most of us understand the difference but i can't think of a better word to use.

there are script kiddies
there are crackers
there are white/black hat hackers

either way the most annoying are the script kiddies and crackers (commercial use). hackers are a totally different breed
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Post by neophyte »

I've been burnt twice when I let phpbb boards I was running get behind on updates... phpBB is great just never let your updates lapse.
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