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Andreas Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 24 July 2003 Location: China Status: Offline Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote Andreas Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Forum hack Posted: 24 July 2003 at 11:14pm
	I have the following question. Recently my forum (version 6.4) has been hacked and defaced. Luckily I make recent backups, so the damage was little. From what I could see from the log files, the hacker must have been able to override my admin password, and replace it with the default. Is there any way to protect myself better ? Thanks in advance, Andreas

Scotty32 Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 30 November 2002 Location: Manchester, UK Status: Offline Points: 1682	Post Options Post Reply Quote Scotty32 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 July 2003 at 6:46am
	yes, change the default username/password to sumfin diff if you can put the database above the root directory ie sum hosts have /wwwroot/ = for web files (pages) /private/ = for databases if you cant, then move the database and rename it replacing all this in the common.asp files (one is in the admin folder) also i think for more sercurity you could upgrade to V7.1

Andreas Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 24 July 2003 Location: China Status: Offline Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote Andreas Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 July 2003 at 7:14am
	Thanks for your input !

Bliss Members Profile Find Members Posts Groupie Joined: 25 April 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 181	Post Options Post Reply Quote Bliss Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 27 July 2003 at 2:59pm
	Or upgrade to version 7, which has encrypted passwords.

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