RE: [NeoStats-Devel] Tip!

"Justin Hammond" <justin-kLev/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.neostats.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
No, Go ahead to move the forums back to our layout....

Right now, I'm working on the announce functions and also on the Menu
function...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: DeadNotBuried [mailto:dnb-4ct+qsaILySks/lY53/[email protected]] 
> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 5:05 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [NeoStats-Devel] Tip!
> 
> 
> I made a backup of the board (after the posts had been 
> removed), so have the
> changes to the forum sections listed here locally, I'll start 
> working on
> adding them back in manually now , unless you want me to wait 
> a while for
> that.
> 
> DNB
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Justin Hammond" <justin-kLev/[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 6:23 PM
> Subject: [NeoStats-Devel] Tip!
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> Never install phpBB themes's from untrusted sites!
> 
> Earlier this year, I was playing around with themes, looking to get
> something that made our forums more inline with the rest of 
> the site. I
> grabbed a theme from some third party site (Can't remember 
> where now) and
> installed it. It actually had some javascript in it, that 
> also posted login
> info to another site when using certain versions of IE. It 
> seems that when I
> was playing around with it, they grabbed my ID and have 
> access to my account
> for a few months (luckly my neostats boards password is different to
> everything else)
> 
> As a result, he also had used our easymod extension to PHPBB 
> to upload a
> mini SQL interface, and god knows what he retrived or what else he had
> done...
> 
> So, I dug through backups, and had to roll back to a backup 
> in December 2004
> (I only had monthly backups in the ranges that this person 
> had accessed our
> forums).... Hence all our hard work sorting out the forums is 
> lost, but I
> have no idea what else he has done, hence better to be safer 
> than sorry.
> 
> I've also upgraded the forums, but a lot of our extensions 
> are now broken.
> I'll try to fix this up soonish...
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Justin
> 
> 
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