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ThE OnE
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 10:44 am 
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Apart from keeping upto date is there any other way to secure a php forum?
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DARKMATTER
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:42 pm 
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ThE OnE wrote:
Apart from keeping upto date is there any other way to secure a php forum?


No idea on this but would advise all owners to keep upto date and back up as several game forums have been hacked and wiped in the last few weeks....

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n6nu
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This forum IS under CONSTANT attack!

You have to keep updating it and use things like visual confirmation. Also, always make sure to set it up in such a way that you have to enable every user by hand.

Bots are signing up users at the rate of 10 to 20 per day. That's why I am working on a trick that defeats the bots automatic signon. In th eprocess I temprarily broke the profiles - sorry.

I hope this helps.

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Hermskii
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Indeed! Be sure to tell me your trick when you get it working right!

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I guess they nothing to do but attack any forum they need a get life

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ThE OnE
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Our site www.ballsoutclan.co.uk has been hacked and wiped twice in the last 3 days we didnt have any trouble for 3 years or so the group responsable was Turkish Hackers they just ruined the database and everytime we re-did the forum they just did it again but keep an eye out for them, if you do find a way let me know
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n6nu
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Man, that's a bummer! Just out of curiosity, which version are you running?

I use phpBB 2.0.21.

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ThE OnE
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Not sure it was the latest version of Fully modded phpbb
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n6nu
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You can see it either of the bottom of the page or on the admin screen,

BTW, see if the Profiles are working again ...
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n6nu wrote:
You can see it either of the bottom of the page or on the admin screen,

BTW, see if the Profiles are working again ...



Yes they wroking



And quote start to work for me :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
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ThE OnE
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phpBBFM Version: 2021.4.40
phpBB Core: 2.0.21

I also get this message on Admin : Unable to open connection to phpBB/phpBBFM server to check for latest version, reported error is:
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ThE OnE
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UPDATE

Well we decided to go with just phpbb as all the mods on fully modded seem to have a lot of security issues.
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Yep. An the more you mod it the harder it becomes to keep it up-to-date. I am still working on a mechanism to defeat the automatic user generation by bots. Yesterday I had the first message posted by a bot. That's a first ...

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ThE OnE
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Just found this it seems pretty cool have a look if you dont know about it

http://starfoxtj.phpbbhelp.org/phpBB/toolkit/#security_scan
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