somebody hacked my forum?
- Thread starter fa5_r
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urp412' I think he went by at one stage.
Oliver was before your time Jamie, he crops up now and then. A nasty piece of work that has caused lots of trouble at FP. I don't think it was him this time though, although I will let fowler decide whether he wants to give names or not as I was given the name by someone else..
iPhonefreak
Paragon
I told them to tell me everything they have on him but they didn't. .<br /><br />-- Fri Apr 05, 2013 7:28 am --<br /><br />fa5_r said:
Fowler said:
Could you PM me who it is? I think I should know. 🙂
SpacewardAsh
Up-and-Coming Sensation
Sucks that all of this hacking has started to circle again, somebody needs a life...
Anyhow, for those wanting to disable their template editors in phpBB3 from within the ACP, take a look at this: https://www.phpbb.com/kb/article/disabl ... te-editor/ and see if it helps 🙂
Anyhow, for those wanting to disable their template editors in phpBB3 from within the ACP, take a look at this: https://www.phpbb.com/kb/article/disabl ... te-editor/ and see if it helps 🙂
CyberFreak
Legendary Typer
It is not Oliver but it a kind of an American equivalent.Nathan said:
That said, at this time I don't really want to give too many details away about who it is at the moment. 1) I am not sure if Fergal will have an issue with me releasing the name and any information we have regarding the user and 2) I don't really want to give away how we came to find out who was behind it. The person we believe it is is not a staff member (or ever was a staff member as far as I am aware) just incase anyone accuses us of protecting a staff member. Neither are they still a member here.
What I will say is the following:
- Check your sites for malicious files and file modifications. Check the files last modified date and use that to help see what files have been modified or uploaded recently. If you see files that shouldn't be there or files recently modified that you haven't edited then you may have been compromised.
- Once you are pretty sure you site is in a clean state, change your account password, cPanel password and password protect your admin directory.
- Common sense... It isn't very common. Be careful where you enter login details, what links you click and what files your download. Also be careful what sites you sign up to. Never reuse the same password between sites. Don't have guessable passwords either.
- Make sure everything is up to date. Forum software, plugins, themes and every things on your computer. Don't forget to update your browser, Anti-virus software and so on.
- Be security conscious. Everything you do, security should be your top priority.
master412160
Seasoned Veteran
All you got to do is:
http://www.phpbb3bbcodes.com/viewtopic. ... 04&p=11904
And nobody can access your AcP but you or those other IP's you allow.
assuming of course they (the hackers) didn't get control of your files.
But to prevent that just use a very strong pass for your ftp account.
With those two and a strong cpanel pass solid you are quite secure.
http://www.phpbb3bbcodes.com/viewtopic. ... 04&p=11904
And nobody can access your AcP but you or those other IP's you allow.
assuming of course they (the hackers) didn't get control of your files.
But to prevent that just use a very strong pass for your ftp account.
With those two and a strong cpanel pass solid you are quite secure.
iPhonefreak
Paragon
It appears he has stopped.
CyberFreak
Legendary Typer
Not him either. Unfortunately he is also from UK along with Oliver and Evan PNathan said:
SpacewardAsh said:
Ash, thanks for the link. Will this work on free hosting as well?<br /><br />-- 06 Apr 2013, 18:35 --<br /><br />
Fowler said:
Same moron (pardon the language) who hacked Chatting Time at one point as well, if memory serves me right. I remember getting hacked once when I had that forum and seeing that GeneralOJB page that's become so infamous.
SpacewardAsh
Up-and-Coming Sensation
Smitty Fan said:
The edit won't work on free forum hosting, not that template editing is usually enabled on free forum hosts anyway 😉
As for the case of the Chatting Time hacking, it was a brute force attack on Kevs account, and they edited the forums and placed a redirect, which is the best they could most likely do on a free forum hosted account depending on what features are enabled.
GeneralOJB last I knew was Oliver, and the "GeneralOJB" name appears to have been silent for quite some time now judging by Google, but who knows eh?
SpacewardAsh said:
Yeah, you never know with these guys. They go by different alises and crap like that all the time, which makes it hard to track them down and turn them in or whatever, because they go by so many ID's, and especially with all the free proxy options and crap. As for the GeneralOJB name, I think you're right there, because it's been a long time since I've seen that one come up, so who knows who's behind the attacks these days?
I have a really great idea for catching him. He also has hacked my old forum and it took a while to restart. If you are pretty skilled in coding, please PM so you can hear what my idea is. I can't say it out loud because he may be reading this topic.
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