v-bulletin sites hacked

Looks like people who did not read the install instructions for vBulletin and remove the install folder after setting up vBulletin are vulnerable to this.

Web Wiz Forums uses a simple check in our install files to see if Web Wiz Forums has been setup already and if it has the install files will not run. It's a very simple check to add and means that you do not need to have to remove the install files.

It's such a simple check to add I am surprised that vBulletin overlooked this.

All software has vulnerabilities and if you produce web applications that the source code be read you have to pay extra attention to security.

It is amazing the amount of time hacker spend going through each and every line of code to find even the smallest vulnerabilities.

Security became the one of the major development parts of Web Wiz Forums back in 2002 and since then coding no code is added to Web Wiz Forums without first considering both security and optimization.

Web Wiz Forums has got a good reputation for security which is why it is used on many hacking websites and we have even worked with a few hacking websites challenging them to find security vulnerabilities in Web Wiz Forums.

I don't mind hackers who find vulnerabilities within software as they are providing a free service to software developers. As long as they work with the software developers reporting the issue first to the developers and allowing enough time for the vulnerability to be patched before they go public.