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peppers wrote:there was a site fart a moment ago someone is doing something I bet
:( I saw it too!
I took a screenshot... Im scared... Ben back up the boards directories NOW!!!
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Someone's hacking the server, or trying to legitamately maintain it. I don't know.
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Yeah, it looks like the phpbb version has been updated.
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Anonymous wrote:Sorry. I do not have too much experience with forums, as you can tell from my posting twice. At least I try to spell, unlike a lot of people in Google Groups.
Last I checked, '2' in place of 'to' is not proper spelling. Don't mind me if I'm wrong, I'm from the U.S.
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I emailed Ben and got him to back up the boards and change his password, but it didnt sound like he had updated anything yet. So really, Im not sure what that was.
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HK-47 wrote:but it didnt sound like he had updated anything yet.
hmmmm... you'll notice that the version info on the bottom of the pages is gone now, so it looks like he (or someone else) did update.
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Could it have been the person trying to hack the site a while ago with the DevCast Forum? Maybe they tried to update it. Strange but a possibility.
I wonder if there is a way to log the IP address and information about a user or computer that changes the board scripts. What language do the boards use for programming? If it has similarities to BASIC, Linux, and/or C (+/++) then I may have enough resources and experiance available to make the file myself. It could be a self executing file that monitors the boards every 5 seconds or something (just so that your ISP doesnt lock you out for sending a barrage of requests).
Or, now that I think about it. Any time the basic stuff (like the script files and such) is altered, a program takes a ``snapshot`` of every user, computer, and such connected to the forums at that time. Giving id information so that you can later do a more extensive search trough whois. Or something. Sounds like fun.
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Lol, the boards use php...
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hmm.. does anyone know if servers keep MYSQL access logs?
If so we could figure out what IP made some of the hacked database entries :)
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Post by Triton »

think he just had a "DUH" moment :D
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Well Ben just emailed me and wants help setting everything up without killing everything...
Gannon... Can you help 'em... Im tired right now and would probably lead him to delete the board or something bad like that... :| (remember to use the charter email adress...)
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guys, i think that phpbb picture, at the top left,, well isnt that nice looking, for these forums...
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sam wrote:guys, i think that phpbb picture, at the top left,, well isnt that nice looking, for these forums...
? Its always been there...
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I think he means that it doesn't suit our forums :)
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phpbb or the pic? Im obviously not getting what hes saying. :?
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