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IrishGunner

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Have a messageboard using phBB 2.013 ???

Over the past few weeks having trouble with it

First someone got in and deleted all the messages and lately they have changed the url of the board so it looks like we have been hacked......

So when a user logins it does not go to our messageboard but another board totally unrelated

Rang our hosting site and they said it was a vulnerability with this version of phBB and they fixed it???

Anyone got any others that are less vulnerable or alternatives ?

Ta
 
IrishGunner said:
First someone got in and deleted all the messages and lately they have changed the url of the board so it looks like we have been hacked......
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Do you know how they got in? Any chance you never changed the default phpBB administrator password and they simply got in through the normal phpBB control panel? Ditto for your hosting account administrator password

So when a user logins it does not go to our messageboard but another board totally unrelated
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Can you not just get into your hosting or phpBB control panel to fix things?

Rang our hosting site and they said it was a vulnerability with this version of phBB and they fixed it???
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Did you give you any more specific details than that? I'm not sure that phpBB is necessarily any more insecure than other alternative bulletin board platforms.

Anyone got any others that are less vulnerable or alternatives ?
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There are lots of surveys and comments on the various packages available out on the web and available through Google. Obviously we have moved AAM from ezBoard to vBulletin recently in case that's of any use to you.
 
ClubMan said:
Do you know how they got in? Any chance you never changed the default phpBB administrator password and they simply got in through the normal phpBB control panel? Ditto for your hosting account administrator password

We Changed our admin p/w when it first happened when they delted all the messages and then they got in again

Can you not just get into your hosting or phpBB control panel to fix things?

Yeah we did this but they cannot tell us who did it or their ISP. IF they could we could ban them or contact their ISP

Did you give you any more specific details than that? I'm not sure that phpBB is necessarily any more insecure than other alternative bulletin board platforms.

They said it was somthing to do with Scripts which is over my head..???

There are lots of surveys and comments on the various packages available out on the web and available through Google. Obviously we have moved AAM from ezBoard to vBulletin recently in case that's of any use to you.
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Yeah was checking out vBulletin but there are costs in obtaining a licence for that so not sure if there where others to keep the cost down ?
 
There have been issues with phpBB recently, bt your host should have it fully secured long before now.
 
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