What's happened? Why has the forum changed?
In the early hours of 9th Sept we had a major attack on the forums which ended up with them being hacked, the hack compromised the files which are used to serve the forums and got into the database too.
A migration to a fresh set of files didn't work because the hack was in the database, so the only way to be 100% sure of stripping out the compromised code was to migrate to a completely different forum system where they couldn't follow.
Hence we've moved to phpBB; it may be that we eventually go back to vBulletin using version 5, or we may just stick with phpBB as it's a good forum system.
The site is very much work in progress, lots of stuff isn't working properly, including the pickems which may take a while to get back on. However I'd rather open up the forums as soon as possible rather than leave them closed until everything is 100% ready.
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Tapatalk access isn't working just now.
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Hackers; Damn their eternal souls :angyfire:
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Bad news, f0cking script kiddies...
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I like the change. For the first time in a while, the forum works properly without javascript again!
Were any malicious files uploaded that users might have been exposed to?
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Originally Posted by Mark
Tapatalk access isn't working just now.
and where's my flag gone? :p :andrea: :laugh: :arrows: :erm:
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Turns out I actually have a backup. Doh. Might restore to that instead. Means losing a weekends posts :(
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Wow. I wondered what had happened.
I have to say I quite like this new layout. It seems to work better with my new laptop from a purely selfish point of view. :kiss:
Anyway these hackers are nasty. I am a member of a Barca Fans forum and they hacked that recently. :angryfire
Hope all is OK again now.