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When trying to figure out how to stop automated account creation on phpBB, I went to phpbb.com and saw this:
Last updated: 8th February 2005, 02:08 GMT
At present www.phpbb.com is offline due to a group of politically motivated hackers wishing to use an opensource project to push their agenda ... shame on them.
We have some possible further details of the events which led to the loss of www.phpbb.com. Though I have not spoken with them myself I have learnt through an intermediary the group that appears to have attacked phpbb.com did indeed use a vulnerability in awstats to gain entry to our server (note the singular use of server there, we don't own a server cluster, just a server).
I am having a problem with user accounts being created with boom.ru web sites and email addresses and such.. has anyone found a way to prevent this? I am thinking I should switch to vBull, but I don't have the time to do this right now. Any suggestions would rock.
Jason
Last updated: 8th February 2005, 02:08 GMT
At present www.phpbb.com is offline due to a group of politically motivated hackers wishing to use an opensource project to push their agenda ... shame on them.
We have some possible further details of the events which led to the loss of www.phpbb.com. Though I have not spoken with them myself I have learnt through an intermediary the group that appears to have attacked phpbb.com did indeed use a vulnerability in awstats to gain entry to our server (note the singular use of server there, we don't own a server cluster, just a server).
I am having a problem with user accounts being created with boom.ru web sites and email addresses and such.. has anyone found a way to prevent this? I am thinking I should switch to vBull, but I don't have the time to do this right now. Any suggestions would rock.
Jason
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