phpBB forum offline after defacement

The popular phpBB forum has been taken offline after hackers cracked into its server and defaced its website yesterday. The open source project's website was attacked using a vulnerability in a package called AWStats announced 17 January. The same exploit has also been used to attack several popular weblogs in recent days, Netcraft reports.

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/10442

 

Published Wed, Feb 9 2005 0:44 by donna