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Hi guys,

I'm opening the forum up after a restore - albeit temporarily. We were hacked by ze Russians, as usual. For nothing more than sh*ts & giggles.

I did the good site admin thing & updated the forum last week to phpbb version 3.0.13L, unbeknownst to me, it's the most hackable version ever lol.

So, we've gone back to 3.0.12 for the moment, but we shouldn't have lost much data. Restore was from Sunday night US time, so Monday morning here.

Moving forward, I need to upgrade it to the latest & greatest version, V3.1.3. Apparently this smooths out all the security issues, plus I have to update the php version on the server to 5.4 to run it.

So please bear with me while we endure some upcoming outages, I have to get it to the latest version before the host will be satisfied. I'm told the new one is much faster, but many of the plugins won't work as expected. I will upgrade them too, but it will take some time.

Cheers.
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Re: Forum hack

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PS. let me know if anything isn't working, I'm still finding a few bugs in the backup. Missing sh*t etc.
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Thanks for spending your free time keeping our OT and troll sanctuary online.
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Cheers for the work!
The only thing I've noticed so far is the website didn't go straight to the forum when I went to www.ftoaustralia.com.

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Forums still bugged
Too many Gen Y with stickers on their car here.
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My post count dropped by 10,000
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Daniel2019 wrote:My IQ dropped by 10,000
:twisted:

Good job Bennoz :D
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Too many Gen Y with stickers on their car here.
Surely there is a plugin that can block those
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    dstocks wrote:
    Too many Gen Y with stickers on their car here.


    Surely there is a plugin that can block those
    It's called trolling them to oblivion on Facebook. :lol:
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    when will this happen el presidenty?
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    FFS IM SICK OF THIS sh*t
    Because nothing is faster than a p plater in a commodore.....
    except maybe a p plater on a unicorn
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    destinationtoby wrote:FFS IM SICK OF THIS sh*t
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    Technikhaus wrote:Cheers for the work!
    The only thing I've noticed so far is the website didn't go straight to the forum when I went to http://www.ftoaustralia.com.

    :)
    Thanks mate, redirect now sorted.
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    Will happen today, outage shouldn't be too long. I've actually built the new website alongside this one already, so the only down time will be when I copy the database into the new db & flick the switch. Maybe an hour??

    The forum will then work & I can sort the plugins at my own pace.
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    destinationtoby wrote:FFS IM SICK OF THIS sh*t
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    :lol:
    Because nothing is faster than a p plater in a commodore.....
    except maybe a p plater on a unicorn
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    New forum is up & running here if you want to take a look: http://ftoaustralia.com/v4/index.php

    Haven't put the skin on it yet, so it's just default.

    You can login with social media on this one too.
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    Perhaps I should've been more specific. I need volunteers to go & play with the new forum, see if you can break it.
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    Bennoz wrote:Perhaps I should've been more specific. I need volunteers to go & play with the new forum, see if you can break it.
    Easy done. DDoS'd in 3..2..1..
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    Shhtuart wrote:
    Bennoz wrote:Perhaps I should've been more specific. I need volunteers to go & play with the new forum, see if you can break it.
    Easy done. DDoS'd in 3..2..1..
    Right back atcha, Mr Optusnet...
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