I've just had to go through and delete a bunch of posts by a particular user who likely had their account compromised; it appeared that a bot had edited a bunch of their posts from the past as well as posted a bunch of recent garbage, plus also changed their account profile information (email address, sig, etc.).
For your sake and the sake of the Ogre site and forums, please make sure you are not using trivial passwords for your Ogre site and forum accounts (for instance, using your username as your password, or using simple dictionary words for passwords).
This sort of attack is easily thwarted with a little bit of diligence on the part of the community, so we thank you in advance for your cooperation!
If, like me, you don't fancy remembering 100 different passwords for different websites you can use something like KeePass ( http://keepass.info/ ) to store all your passwords in a database with 1 master password to unlock it.
SpaceDude wrote:If, like me, you don't fancy remembering 100 different passwords for different websites you can use something like KeePass ( http://keepass.info/ ) to store all your passwords in a database with 1 master password to unlock it.
I store my passwords in my PDA. Got about 250 of them, all random alphanumeric and at least 10 characters long. Not much chance of anyone guessing mine.
Any plans for PHPBB 3 ?
This really should be considered soon. There are tonnes of security flaws in phpBB2, and bots attack it all the time. phpBB3 is a lot more secure and literally bot-free.
phpBB2 has completely ceased development now. So if an exploit is found, it'll never be fixed.
SpaceDude wrote:If, like me, you don't fancy remembering 100 different passwords for different websites you can use something like KeePass ( http://keepass.info/ ) to store all your passwords in a database with 1 master password to unlock it.
Or, you know, just use
Err in a few days from now, Firefox 3 will be officially released.
A willow deeply scarred, somebody's broken heart
And a washed-out dream
They follow the pattern of the wind, ya' see
Cause they got no place to be
That's why I'm starting with me
Don't get me wrong, SMF is a powerful piece of forum software. (Especially the modding system.) It just seems a bit too... Basic and unprofessional. But that's my opinion.
I never liked phpBB2 either, but phpBB3 has come on leaps and bounds. It's truly flawless, and the revamped ACP is great to work with.
SpaceDude wrote:If, like me, you don't fancy remembering 100 different passwords for different websites you can use something like KeePass ( http://keepass.info/ ) to store all your passwords in a database with 1 master password to unlock it.
Or, you know, just use
Err in a few days from now, Firefox 3 will be officially released.
Good point - I wanted to post the icon instead, but didn't find a suitable size, nor did I feel like manually resizing the gigantic vector-generated one I found on the internet. Have you pledged to the official FireFox Download Day on the 17th? I have
nullsquared wrote:Have you pledged to the official FireFox Download Day on the 17th? I have
I probably will, even though I use Opera mostly.
One of the main reasons I support Firefox is because it is the anti-IE. As anyone who develops for the Web should know, IE isn't actually software, but an entity forged from pure evil.
Frenetic wrote:One of the main reasons I support Firefox is because it is the anti-IE. As anyone who develops for the Web should know, IE isn't actually software, but an entity forged from pure evil.
You can say that again. IE7 was a massive improvement though. Still not perfect, but compared to IE6, it's like bliss. Oh goodness, the horrors. It took twice as long to get your site to work in both FireFox and IE6 than it did to actually create the website.
IE7 was a massive improvement though. Still not perfect, but compared to IE6, it's like bliss. Oh goodness, the horrors. It took twice as long to get your site to work in both FireFox and IE6 than it did to actually create the website. 