Re: xap hacked ?

[Wayne <Wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah - real pain in the a**e when that happens!

I run phpBB on my site and lost the forums and the main page the other
month - lucky I got to it before the site was re'googled' as there was a
big splash of profanities!

Turned out that there was a worm that was using google to find phpbb
sites and spread - I think by the time it hit me, part of the files that
were needed to carry the worm on were starting to be removed. So a
quick(!) replacement of the main page and upgrade of the forums were in
order to get everything back in order.

hopefully safe now :)

Wayne.

Ian Lowe wrote:

>Bad luck, and a lot of it around - xPL Project had our forums hosed
last
>weekend by a bunch of turkish script kids (easy enough to recover
>thankfully)
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>As an aside, probably worth checking if you have PHPBB at any version
less
>than 2.0.11 (including relevant Nuke modules) - that's the one they are
>targetting.
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>Ian.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
>Alex Monaghan
>Sent: 17 February 2006 18:25
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] xap hacked ?
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>Looks that way :(
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>Hopefully just a simple php-nuke exploit rather than a major security
>breach.
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