Hacked

Ian Melville · Post by **Ian Melville** » Fri Nov 19, 2010 8:33 am

What is happening to the forum?
I was under the impression that only registerd members could post messages, but it would appear that spoof names are not only able to register, but also post. Are the shields down

Post by **John Dean** » Fri Nov 19, 2010 9:54 am

There are some very clever hackers about.

No security is foolproof.

Ian Melville · Post by **Ian Melville** » Fri Nov 19, 2010 10:08 am

Yeh, there are some clever ones. I thought all applicants were vetted against thier membership mumber?

Dave Hall · Post by **Dave Hall** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 12:12 pm

They've obviously found the back door to phpBB now - my own car club forum is getting sporadic clothing offers - but we haven't got any sporads to benefit from it.

At least we haven't had the gratuitous porn pictures yet.

I've just had an email offering upgrades to a secure version 3.0.8, so I guess LAA will have had similar.

Ian Melville · Post by **Ian Melville** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 5:00 pm

IIRC the LAA software is well out of date. There was an attempt to update it, but that failed due to the complexity of the site. Sooner or later they will have to bite the bullet and do something.

ChampChump · Post by **ChampChump** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 7:28 pm

And now, trainers.....! And not from the ET either.

Rob Swain · Post by **Rob Swain** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 10:04 am

Ian Melville wrote:IIRC the LAA software is well out of date. There was an attempt to update it, but that failed due to the complexity of the site. Sooner or later they will have to bite the bullet and do something.

We're back to the problem that whoever set up the site put these 'orrible non-standard add ons in it - like the menu on the left. Never liked that as it eats screen 'real-estate' for no worthwhile benefit, and it doesn't even work elegantly as it stays attached to the top of the window and disappears as you scroll down.

Ditch the pointless customisation and upgrade the security to the standard other sites enjoy.

OK - rant over.

For now, anyway!