phpBB Hacked and out of service

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cordel
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phpBB Hacked and out of service

Post by cordel »

FYI
phpBB Site has been attacked, hacked, and is down. Any one using it may want to make sure you have whatever safe guards you can and Backup frequntly till they figure out what, why, and how.
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Post by zoneminder »

Luckily (for us) it doesn't appear to be a vulnerability in phpBB itself that caused the problem but one in AWstats, which I don't have (AFAIK :) ).

Further details can be had here

Phil
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