phpBB forum offline after defacement

phpBB forum offline after defacement
John Leyden, 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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phpBB forum offline after defacement 2005-02-08
Anonymous (1 replies)

phpBB forum offline after defacement 2005-02-09
Anonymous

Yeah, but if even these script kiddies could deface the site then security must have been a little lax... Imagine if a really determined and malicious individual got their hands on it.

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