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Hacking notification

topic posted Fri, January 18, 2008 - 3:45 PM by  Tedward
Two of my sites, both with a PHBB installation on them, have been hacked. We just got everything back in working order, but I thought I should spread the news: there's a pretty serious looking wave of attacks that depend of the PHPBB setup to disguise the PHP files necessary to do things like spoof a paypal site.
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    Re: Hacking notification

    Fri, January 18, 2008 - 8:25 PM
    So, no clicking on paypal links on sites that are not Paypal or EBay?

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      Re: Hacking notification

      Fri, January 18, 2008 - 9:03 PM
      Heheheh
      Yeah, that too.

      Just as a general rule, never click a link in an email. If you get something that says you need to do something in paypal, just open a browser and type paypal.com and let the real site tell you what it needs. Same for all those bank notices, etc.
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