All my Pegasos's websites have all been hacked :

Wikipeg wiki : dead !
http://wikipeg.free.fr/wikini/wakka.php ... Principale
So the Pegasos book & Efika book pages : dead !

Pegasos3D forum : dead !
http://pegasos3d.free.fr/phpBB2

That's really not nice...
What's the interest of hacking a private user ?

That is too bad. Hope you have a copy! Let's figure out if we can find a place to host it.

R&B

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Of course, as a good advised software engineer,
I do not have any copy of what I do when I'm at home...

bump... bump... bump... (head banging on the wall)

So :
My SQL database is crashed :/ which seems to be the main problem. I don't know yet if it can be repaired as the main table (containing all pages) seems to be crashed.

My forum is empty... but there was nothing much inside so that's ok.

My files seem ok (I'm now backing them on my disk).

OK...
I've just set new temporary main pages...

A quick note.. phpBB is notoriously buggy web-board system and those sites are under constant threat of been defaced.. I do hope you had latest version, since earlier one's were essentially wide open for anyone to come and trash..

That's how.. but for why/who? Dunno. it would be too easy to blame some particular hate groups .. So unless you'll be able to find who it was.

Last week bugtraq and co. were full of phpBB bugs, so I expect to see a lot of messages like this one.

CzP

Speaking of this - what forum and portal engines are good, from a security point of view? Xoops?

Ideas anyone?

No wonder. You used a stone age version of phpBB. I use phpBB since 3 years without any problems at pegasosforum.de

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I asked from couple friends who keep active forums.. they don't have expericene of Xoops so they didn't comment it .. phpBB is definitely out (perhaps usable, if constantly patched but they don't like taking that risk), Invision is apparenly ok if you buy the latest (old free ones are buggy), but for free board they recommended Simple Machinnes Forum. It's easy to maintain (and upgrade), seems to be safe etc..

mmh....

Is not PPCZone on a PHPBB forum ? (gasp !)

too bad mate, i hope you'll have it all sorted out asap.
these web hackers are usually stupid kids trying their brand new (and miserable) skills on easy to hack material.
Well, I sincerely hope the WikiPeg and associated projects will be online again soon.

cheers

i was wondering why i couldnt access the efika book site
this explains it. Those people (script kiddies) should find some thing more constructive to do with their time

We run a custom pretty thing for the front page (it's not Xoops, I wrote it myself) and project site.

The forum is PHPBB2 but it's kept up to date and has some other security fixes enabled. I made sure you can' t tell what version we're running; we USED to use a heavily patched one which was almost impossible to update (and the Xoops/RunCMS NewBB module etc. for "old forums") but they are long, long gone now.

Power.org forums, and a lot of other important places on the web, are running PHPBB as well. As long as they are maintained rather than left, it's fine.

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The thing is I like PHPBB2 and I'm used to it.
I knew it was not 100% secure but I wasn't thinking someone would hack it so easily.
The thing is that I should have updated it.

So what forum would you recommand ?
- phpbb2 again
- punbb
- yabb
- Phorum
- Deluxe BB
- SMF
- ...

There are 101 different one here :
http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_S ... e_Systems/

I'ld give a try to Xaraya. it's little bit difficult to use, but looks pretty good and quite unfamiliar engine so should be hard to break.