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B3NKobe
February 8th, 2005, 03:34 AM
phpbbb has been hacked and the site is down, link below:

http://www.phpbb.com/

I hope they get em!!! :gas:
ya3
February 8th, 2005, 03:42 AM
wooooo... thats gotta hurt.

:shifty:...what's the vulnerability in awstats?:D
frozenRage
February 8th, 2005, 04:05 AM
ouchy...
minimalistik
February 8th, 2005, 07:16 AM
Get a social life hackers.
Butters
February 8th, 2005, 10:50 AM
Social life? Whats that?

:P
trundrumbalind
February 8th, 2005, 10:56 AM
At present www.phpbb.com is offline due to a group of politically motivated hackers wishing to use an opensource project to push their agenda ... shame on them.
What political motivation is this?
Maybe George Bush has been conspiring again with Osama Bin Laden over a PHPBB forum...
UNFLUX
February 8th, 2005, 11:11 AM
The problem is apparently with Awstats, and not PHPBB itself:

Warning, a security hole was recently found in AWStats versions from 5.0 to 6.2 when AWStats is used as a CGI: A remote user can execute arbitrary commands on your server using permissions of your web server user (in most cases user "nobody").
If you use AWStats with another version or with option AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser to 0, you are safe. If not, it is highly recommanded to update to 6.3 version that fix this security hole.
this quote is from http://www.awstats.org/

This may be the awstats vulnerability in question:
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/0f5a2b4d-694b-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82.html