The forums have been hacked! [closed]

Post by **caughtatwork** » 26 April 05 6:44 pm

Do you want a replacement subSilver theme_info.cfg file for the standard subSilver theme?

Sorry if I'm being annoying, just trying to help.

maccamob · Post by **maccamob** » 26 April 05 6:51 pm

Great work to embi, riblit and co for getting things up and running again so quickly. Is it possible to prevent it happening again?

vk7hch · Post by **vk7hch** » 26 April 05 6:55 pm

caughtatwork wrote:Have you tried replacing the .css file with the standard Sub-silver style sheet?

Restore from backup?

embi · Post by **embi** » 26 April 05 6:56 pm

orac7000 wrote:Restore from backup?

We have to wait fo i! to do that...and we cant contact them

vk7hch · Post by **vk7hch** » 26 April 05 7:00 pm

embi wrote:
We have to wait fo i! to do that...and we cant contact them

Well it looks ok for now, thanks for the work you have put into it!!

Bronze · Post by **Bronze** » 26 April 05 7:02 pm

Sorry Guys - I didn't see this thread and posted a thanks in General chat.

There are screen shots there but no originals sorry.

Great work guys. Nice mix at the moment. I like it.

The Bronze.
On hackers: Why call it "take" a dump, when you leave something behind?

aloysius · Post by **aloysius** » 26 April 05 7:03 pm

cant even get the colours from the internet archive...this site blocks it

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http://web.archive.org/web/*/forum.geocaching.com.au/*

riblit · Post by **riblit** » 26 April 05 7:07 pm

caughtatwork wrote:Do you want a replacement subSilver theme_info.cfg file for the standard subSilver theme?

Sorry if I'm being annoying, just trying to help.

Appreciated but I need to be able to load it up. i! have a development version of the site so if people complain too much (or EcoDave runs a poll on my efforts

) about these colours they can change them.

Gunn Parker · Post by **Gunn Parker** » 26 April 05 7:11 pm

I like the colour scheme as of now 4:12pm W.A. time

riblit · Post by **riblit** » 26 April 05 7:12 pm

maccamob wrote:Great work to embi, riblit and co for getting things up and running again so quickly. Is it possible to prevent it happening again?

once i! work out how he got in..<br />

Meanwhile I have a copy of this config.<br />
caw, there are no themes attached to the subSilver template on this bb

Derringer · Post by **Derringer** » 26 April 05 7:38 pm

Does anyone know if the hacker got access to our user passwords???
Kevin

swampgecko · Post by **swampgecko** » 26 April 05 7:41 pm

Derringer wrote:Does anyone know if the hacker got access to our user passwords???
Kevin

Don't know and don't care cause I just changed mine anyway

embi · Post by **embi** » 26 April 05 7:44 pm

Not that I can say for sure, but this guy has hit a number of PHP forum boards and seems to be only changing the colours etc.

It seems he may be just causing strife. He seems to have just simply changed the colours etc on the boards he has hacked, which is very easy to be able to do if you can get access to the admin pages.

Post by **caughtatwork** » 26 April 05 7:52 pm

Derringer wrote:Does anyone know if the hacker got access to our user passwords???
Kevin

Extremely unlikely.
phpBB passwords are MD5 hashed which is a one-way hash.
I suppose nothing is perfect, but I wouldn't stress about it. I think they'd have better things to hack that try a brute force against an obscure bulletin board to gain a password or two.

http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article.php?article_id=40

ideology · Post by **ideology** » 26 April 05 7:58 pm

as embi says, it looks like he just got to the admin pages
the things he changed are all in the forum database - nothing appears to have changed on the filesystem of the server itself

we'll look through the logs in detail to find out more