| Nov 8, 2009 |
i never knew that phpbb wasnt very secure.I've just uploaded it for my site a couple of days ago.I'm NOT ever using SMF, i really hate smf.I might get rid of phpbb and use xmb, xmb is definately my favourite free forum around, i really love it.
 Nothing new on the horizon, unfortunatelly. It is well-known that phpBB is the BBS with most security issues. And with hundreds of cracking tutorials on-line, even a kid could get into phpBB. On the other hand, it would be hard, even for a pro, to crack SMF. In my opinion, it is the best free BBS when it comes to security. It might not be as good-looking and customizable (the number of mods) as phpBB, but it sure is more secure.
I don't fully understand.
Anyway if you're talking about a phpBB forum, there's no point you should use proboards.
Isn't there any way to prevent these SQL injection attacks ?
BTW, what is an SQL injection attack ? I'm using phpBB for my site and I loved the customizability. SMF seemed a little harder to use ( for me at least ) Isn't there any way we can make phpBB safer ??? I'm also using phpbb for my forum! like it very much as it is the simplest forum and easy to maintain than any other bullettin boards! I like the simple interface also!  QUOTE(FunDa @ Sep 23 2006, 07:33 PM)  BTW, what is an SQL injection attack ? QUOTE SQL injection is a security vulnerability that occurs in the database layer of an application. The vulnerability is present when user input is either incorrectly filtered for string literal escape characters embedded in SQL statements or user input is not strongly typed and thereby unexpectedly executed. SQL injection is a technique used to take advantage of non-validated input vulnerabilities to pass SQL commands through a Web application for execution by a backend database. Attackers take advantage of the fact that programmers often chain together SQL commands with user-provided parameters, and can therefore embed SQL commands inside these parameters. The result is that the attacker can execute arbitrary SQL queries and/or commands on the backend database server through the Web application. You can see more about that here, here and also here How to avoid SQL Injection >> Read it here & here
This is very alarming.
I've been deciding which setup to go to and this must be the third instance I've heard about phpBB getting SQL injhected (if that's a term being used now). So I guess I'm left with SMF then. Is there any other free forum out there that's noteworthy that anyone here can recommend?
Try phorum.org.
It is used as a forum by Larry Ullman, an author of php and mysql books, so I suspect that it is rather secure. Also, this was posted on the phorum site Main page, which leads me to think it just might be secure: QUOTE * There is no shortage of message boards that use MySQL. When the webmasters at mysql.com went looking for one to install, they chose Phorum.
Bad luck Nightfox...I feel for you..must have been terrible to login and find your board contents gone ;((
Did you have a backup in anyway?
Because phpbb is so popular for a long time now, a lot of whom know the source code and know how it works, so if you know how it works, you can always mess it up, don't you? Eventually, I read that SMF is much more secure to exploits and sql injections, because it is coded differently than phpbb, but people who is used to use phpbb - they have difficulties of moving to other forums such as SMF or don't have enough income to buy IPB or vBulletin.. They defend phpbb and say that those sites which get successful attacks didn't configure it the way it needs to be configured + the server configuration is bad and etc. It would be best to create your own forum system, but it just takes time and why waste the time if somebody else wrote it?
 There are more forum software written but not so popular, so they might be more secure, but with less features and modifications + skins. I myself wanted to use phpbb, but as it is so vulnerable to exploits, I never did it, but I think I will use Phorum, which is available for a long time, but new versions are available now and I hope it will suit my needs.. I just need a very customizable forum software written in php which would work with mysql database.
oh ****! I ever used phpBB ... * gulp* well ... then i'll use phpbb 3 ; it's much more secure!
 BTW i don't like smf , don't have money for IPB or VB... :/ Latest Entries i never knew that phpbb wasnt very secure.I've just uploaded it for my site a couple of days ago. I'm NOT ever using SMF, i really hate smf. I might get rid of phpbb and use xmb, xmb is definately my favourite free forum around, i really love it.
The problem with phpBB is that they sort of have a bad reputation for keeping up to date with their security issues....at least from what I read from other phpBB users. SMF is usually really quick on the trigger and the patches are deployed and installed usually with just two clicks or so.
I would recommend you to stay with SMF because hardly anyone is using PhpBB 3 and we dont know if it has any security issues but i'm sure its going to be much safer than PhpBB2!!
I'll say stick with SMF
So can you still do that same hack on phpBB3 or not?
i'm kinda dubble sided as to what software i should use for my new forums. I have both experiences with phpBB and SMF. I was considering phpBB3 now so my new forums. Does anyone want to back phpBB3 or still reccomend me to go for SMF?
It Happened to me as well
My phpbb forum site was hacked too!! I believe the security problem is sorted out in phpbb 3!!!I would recommend people to avoid using phpbb 2 as well!!! Regards
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