Rant #115 Wednesday, April 6, 2005

NOTICE

We have lost the forums due to hacking by a coward. The script kiddie decided to exploit a vulnerability in PHPBB.
I've been looking into how they were able to do what they did - and let me assure you, it wasn't through any ingenuity on their part. They made some simple changes to the forum configuration and the admin account via a little script they must have picked up from somewhere.
Currently, I have the complete, up-to-date forums on my development server, and I've upgraded PHPBB to the latest version. All of the mods have carried over, too. It's just a matter of double-checking all of the security stuff before pushing it live.

Where do these two-bit morons get off calling themselves hackers, anyway? The problem doesn't lie in what they did, but rather in the fact that the flaw existed in the board enabling them to do it. Hey, I know nothing about hacking and even I could have done this. Still, it's annoying.

Thank you for your patience.

Believe me, this is not a good time for this crap and I am SO sick of dealing with these kids. One can only hope that they get caught.

The forums will return as soon as everything is fixed.