, The Register 2005-02-08
The popular phpBB forum has been taken offline after hackers cracked into its server and defaced its website yesterday. The open source project's website was attacked using a vulnerability in a package called AWStats announced 17 January. The same exploit has also been used to attack several popular weblogs in recent days, Netcraft reports.
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Simiens are script kiddies known for mass defacements on zone-h.org. Running a script to mass deface websites doesn't take much knowledge or skill.
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