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dmw Site Admin
Joined: 30 Jan 2002 Posts: 211 Location: Oregon
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 9:00 pm Post subject: Board is back up and running again |
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The past couple of months haven't been well for the board.
First a "bot" out there was going to PHPBB boards like this and posting internet SPAM. Like they do for guestbooks. I added a fake user to hopefully block the bot and it hasn't been back.
Next was an attack. Basically someone must have hacked out my password or used a back door and deleted all the forums (SQL database) and really messed things up. I had the database restored from early March so we only lost a few postings.
Hopefully we are back to running normally again without any more hacks, bots, or disturbances. After such my recommendation would be to back up every so often.
-dan |
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dmw Site Admin
Joined: 30 Jan 2002 Posts: 211 Location: Oregon
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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you should update your version of phpbb |
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dmw Site Admin
Joined: 30 Jan 2002 Posts: 211 Location: Oregon
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 5:46 am Post subject: update |
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dmw wrote: | you should update your version of phpbb |
I recently did--a month ago. Seems there is still a hole somewhere that you found. Sigh.
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dmw Site Admin
Joined: 30 Jan 2002 Posts: 211 Location: Oregon
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:54 pm Post subject: Updated to 2.0.14 |
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I've got the board updated to latest phpBB version: 2.0.14.
I still need to fix a few items but hopefully some of those major security flaws and potential hacks are now gone.
-dan |
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