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W2S hacked

Well, I'm not really mad at the person who did it, because the hack just seems to be there to point out security flaws and I believe this to be a major problem of W2S.

PHP-Nuke and phpBB both aren't quite known for their tight security. The only way to counteract hack attempts is to stay up-to-date, which ideally means patching within the same day a security patch comes out. I know it's a lot of work, especially if you have many customizations to maintain, but I would rather do without customizations than to leave a system vulnerable to exploits.

I'm writing this because I believe that the CMS hasn't seen any patches for many months. The PHP-Nuke version here is 5.5 but there's already a version 7.8 available. Both versions 6 and 7 have seen security fixes. That makes it quite likely that version 5.5 has many security issues.


06-24-2006 08:49 AM
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Hey! Site hacked again...

Redirect my home page to it's web site....

It's time to rebuild this site!

06-24-2006 02:02 PM
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If you use Firefox there's a nice extension that prevents automatic meta redirections and displays a notice with the redirection link instead: http://www.allesdurcheinander.de/refreshblocker/.


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We'll fix this.


Mike Hoffmann,
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06-25-2006 06:02 PM
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