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Post by bod on Dec 22, 2004 14:52:10 GMT
Not specific to thsi site, but it has taken down one of the other masonic forums I belong to: Santy worm defaces thousands of sites By John Leyden - www.theregister.co.ukPublished Tuesday 21st December 2004 23:38 GMT A worm which attacks web servers running the popular phpBB discussion forum software to deface vulnerable systems spread widely across the net today. The Santy worm searches for vulnerable forum sites using Google. When a suitable target is found, Santy uses a remote exploit to gain access and deface it before resuming its scanning activity. Content on defaced sites is replaced by the following text string. "This site is defaced!!!" NeverEverNoSanity Apart from defacing infected sites with this text, the worm has no payload. It will not infect PC used to view infected sites. F-Secure, the Finnish anti-virus firmm estimates there more than one million sites use the vulnerable phpBB software, of which tens of thousands have already been defaced. Users of phpBB are advised to update to version 2.0.11. ®<br>
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Post by waynecowley on Dec 24, 2004 13:07:08 GMT
Looks like this one hit the Masonic-Chat Board a couple of days ago - it's still not back
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Post by staffs on Dec 24, 2004 13:10:40 GMT
Maybe wayne or matt can tell us if this forum is at risk at what to do about it.
But if you search on Google this forum will not come up.
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bod
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Post by bod on Dec 24, 2004 15:26:04 GMT
The vulnerability should have been fixed by now, there is a strong chance that you are on the advanced version of php and so are not affected.
I did notify Julian that his site had been hacked, and he has put up a holding message. Any pc's that accessed affected sites will also be safe, this attack was focused on the php servers themselves, and did not transmit to PC's.
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Post by staffs on Dec 24, 2004 15:33:24 GMT
Thank you Bod and have a good one and dont forget:
LET TEMPERANCE CHASTEN YOU
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