Hacked vB forums

[SusanD]

Does anybody know what's going on with www.moochies.com/forums ?For over 2 weeks, they've had a message up that they were closed because their forums were hacked. I wonder if this is the result of the spam bot or something else?

[Dr Shark]

vBulletin wouldn't know why they are down, the only way they would know is if they contacted vbulletin.
but still they probably couldn't tell you.

[Wayne Luke]

Have you thought about asking them? That site doesn't sound familiar from any support tickets.

[SusanD]

Have you thought about asking them? That site doesn't sound familiar from any support tickets.

I have asked a couple of times. They don't respond to email. Maybe it's an unlicensed site. I just thought maybe they posted something here, since it's been 2 weeks. I was wondering if my board might be at risk for something similar. I upgraded to 2.2.9 to take care of the porn spam bot...and that's what Moochies homepage shows. Thanks!

[okrogius]

Any website (vbulletin or not) is only as secure as the owner tries to make it.

[CeleronXT]

Any website (vbulletin or not) is only as secure as the owner tries to make it.

Or the sysadmin, can't forget him.

[dethfire]

How does vB get hacked? I hope mine doesn't!

[Scott MacVicar]

usually by the admin being careless.

Leaving the getadmin.php file uploaded, using the same password on another site with a corrupt owner or installing some sort of insecure hack,.

[N9ne]

I have asked a couple of times. They don't respond to email. Maybe it's an unlicensed site. I just thought maybe they posted something here, since it's been 2 weeks. I was wondering if my board might be at risk for something similar. I upgraded to 2.2.9 to take care of the porn spam bot...and that's what Moochies homepage shows. Thanks!

I believe 2.2.9 doesn't solve the bot problem. It's 2.3.0 that integrated the new image verification system which takes care of bots.

[SusanD]

I believe 2.2.9 doesn't solve the bot problem. It's 2.3.0 that integrated the new image verification system which takes care of bots.

DUh! I guess I'm having a blonde moment. You're right. I did upgrade to 2.3.0 after the spam bot. I don't know why I was thinking I was running version 2.2.9. It probably was the bot that shut their site down.