Special note to our Site Admin - phpBB Security 1440
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Hi Alison - I have a background of many years in IT security. Over the weekend, a new phpBB ‘bot’ threat has surfaced and you all might watch for any accounts registered to the name below. I’d recommend banning the user account FuntKlakow so it can’t auto-register.
I want to make sure one of my favorite forums is protected
phpBB Hack - bot registering user name FuntKlakow
http://www.incidents.org/diary.php?storyid=1201
During the last few days a bot using a name FuntKlakow, has been registering to maybe thousands of phpBB forums. Some speculate that the bot’s owners are preparing to exploit an unreported vulnerability
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Harry,
Thanks very much… appreciated.
FuntKlakow has now been dealt with.
Alison