Message Board Security Problems

Security leaks can be a big problem for any site using amessage board. Hackers can actually use your message board to go in andchange things on your site. This has happened to me at least fourtimes. Once an iframe was added to every single page of one of my verylarge sites. Thankfully, I had it completely backed up, so all I had todo was send the pages back up to the server. Twice, the front page ofone of my sites was hijacked. The entire content of the front page wasreplaced by some note from a hacker stating he had been there.

The last time one of my sites had to be taken down to prevent theserver from crashing. After calling my web host they were able to tellme my message board was the cause of the problem. I used, and still doon some sites, the phpbb message board. It is one of the most popularboards on the internet, and it's free. The web host tech told me thatthe problem was that a virus of sorts had been placed onto the server,through the message board, in the message board folder, and was callingout to other servers causing a major load on my web host's server. Tofix the problem the web host tech found the file and deleted it. Afterthat, all I had to do was update to the latest version of phpbb and sofar so good.

If you use a popular message board like phpbb you need to make sureyou've always got the latest version. The more popular a message boardis, the more hackers are likely to strike. Perhaps the familiarity isthe problem or maybe the hackers know they can get a lot of bites goingafter a widely used board. As of this writing, the most current versionof phpbb is 2.0.15. As the phpbb guys are always security consciousthey have added to this version a re-authentication to access theadministration panel.

Forums are a very important part of a website, but they can be thedownfall if your board script is not updated on a regular basis.

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