Unexpected downtime

GeeDougg · Post by **GeeDougg** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 3:24 pm

Yeah I think we all are. But the whole "blood shall be spillt" thing is goin' too far.

Csonicgo · Post by **Csonicgo** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:01 pm

phpBB is blaming http://www.howdark.com, which is a lie. He didn't do it, yet now he has no internet access ans was almost kicked out of his house.

howdarksecurity wrote:2004-11-18

My ISP, Roadrunner, called letting me know that phpBB had reported me for 'hacking' their forums. I was told I used a 'sophiscated virus to move and delete files on the server'. Which to note, i'm not even sure what a 'sophiscated virus' is, and nor did I move, or delete anything. I had found three exploits which was found on their website, one on their forum. It turns out someone used it, when released, to add a forum, which I was framed. phpBB is immature about these decisions. I almost lost my internet access for trying to help phpBB out.

As posted on the phpBB website, "The third issue, search highlighting, has been checked by us several times and we can do nothing with it at all. Again, that particular group admit likewise. In a future release of 2.0.x we will eliminate the problem once and for all, but as noted it cannot (to our knowledge and as noted, testing) be taken advantage of and thus is not considered by us to be cause for an immediate release."

This is incorrect, their 'knowledge' is wrong, this is a very serious problem.

Tens of THOUSANDS of websites are vunerable to system commands like removing every file.

Why hasn't a patch been released yet?

Because the phpBB Developers are dealing with this situation the wrong way. I am all open arms to work with them, and help them patch stuff so their software is clean of exploits, but they instead, ip ban me and almost get me kicked out of my house.

Ixnatifual · Post by **Ixnatifual** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:42 pm

wtf motherfuckers keelz0r teh haxx0r

GeeDougg · Post by **GeeDougg** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 5:22 pm

Oh OK Ix, our problems are solved!

Who or What is "howdark" anyway? The site address nicht wokrzeug (or something).

Zarggg · Post by **Zarggg** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 6:57 pm

I wondered what happened. By the time I got to the site, it had a "This site is suspended" notice on it.

It happened to my host (and employer) last October. TecH TeaM was the culprit there.

Bloodshedder · Post by **Bloodshedder** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 8:17 pm

Thanks for the heads up on this exploit, as I run phpBB as well.

Macil · Post by **Macil** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 9:07 pm

Question: Is this hacker, like, "local" to us, I mean, like, maybe a ZDooM hater (legacy user?), or is this beyond us, like someone who took down hundreds of websites?

Csonicgo · Post by **Csonicgo** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 9:24 pm

someone who went nuts on hundereds of sites that have germans as their members.

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:11 pm

Please stop abusing the word "hack" or any of its derivitives. This was not something done by hackers, it was probably done by a 13-year old dickhead using a tool specifically developed (possibly by real hackers) to break into PHPBB boards.

Thank you.

GeeDougg · Post by **GeeDougg** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:56 pm

O...K.... So who cares anyway...; the point is, someone did something they really shouldn't have....

Grubber · Post by **Grubber** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:25 am

Thx for the info about phpBB, randy.

(IMO some morons of other Doom port community did this, they just can't stand ZDoom is the best

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GeeDougg · Post by **GeeDougg** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:47 am

Hey you're right that's always a possibility....

Or maybe it was the folks at iD.... Maybe they hate the fact that we're recreating Doom E1 levels (KDIZD) and doing such a kick-ass job.... So they got jealous and decided to hax0r us.... Bastards!

I believe HotWax is about to jump in and defend iD....

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 5:34 am

No need. Hopefully everyone knows that iD has much more important things to worry about.

Post by **Kirby** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 7:03 am

I was wondering why the site was down. Now I know...

WHER THE F*CK ARE THOSE PUNKS? IM GONNA KICK THEIR @$$!!!!
I got worried b/c I couldn't view progress in the forums!!

Post by **Vader** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 8:06 am

It´s really a shame, that some people think it´s funny to blow up Websites!
But since nothing seem to be damaged permanently and the Zdoom.org is online again I don´t really care.

Csonicgo wrote:someone who went nuts on hundereds of sites that have germans as their members.

Am I missing something? What have german members to do with this

@Kirby: What´s your problem with Punks? (I guess you don´t think of the same meaning as I do

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