vBSecurity v1.1.7 Patch Level 1

Bug Fixes:

• Turning off the modification via the vBulletin Options will now work as intended

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Several good improvements this year. Unfortunately vBSecurity hasn't reduced the number of mass logons hammering my site. And banning the spoofed IP addresses just causes problems for legitimate users.

Unfortunately, in order to reduce those, you would need alternative solutions. This isn't designed to be a preventative measure, but rather a reactive measure. In other words, "oh hey I see X is going on, I should verify and react to it" rather than something akin to what a firewall would be (e.g. blocking malicious traffic without user interaction).

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vBSecurity v1.1.8

New Features:

Login Strikes Viewer

• Login Strikes log entries can now be pruned
• Requires the "Can Prune Log Entries" config.php permission

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vBSecurity v1.1.8 Patch Level 2

Bug Fixes:

• Turning the modification off via the "Enable Modification" vBOption meant you could no longer access the majority of vBSecurity admin controls
• Fixed an issue with the "login strikes" page that could produce a fatal error in certain scenarios

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vBSecurity v1.2.1

New Features:

IP Verification: Front-End

• Users can control whether to require email confirmation of new IP addresses for front-end pages
• Toggleable via the UserCP
• Works in a similar fashion to the AdminCP and ModCP versions

IP Access Log

• Tracks all IP addresses used to access a user account
• Overrides the "Search IP Addresses" functionality in vBulletin to provide advanced functionality
• Works with all existing links to the "Search IP Addresses" functionality

IP Access Log: Search New IPs

• Searches for any new IP addresses being used to access accounts
• Displays a familiar looking list of IP addresses
• Selectable "start date" to check for new IPs

IP Access Log: Multiple Account Access IPs

• Searches for any IP addresses being used to access multiple accounts
• Displays a familiar looking list of IP addresses

Changes To Existing Features:

• Altered vBulletin & vBSecurity tables to be IPv6 compatible

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vBSecurity v2.0.0

New Features:

(Pro) New Security Watcher: "Failed Logins: Non-Existent Usernames"

• Checks for logins against a single username that doesn't exist
• Lets you take separate action towards bots trying to login with stolen user credentials that don't exist on your site
• Integrates into the existing "Logins" watcher group

(Pro) New Security Watcher: "Failed Mass Logins: Non-Existent Usernames"

• Checks for logins against multiple usernames that don't exist
• Lets you take separate action towards bots trying to login with stolen user credentials that don't exist on your site
• Integrates into the existing "Logins" watcher group

(Pro) Compromised Accounts Detection

• Alerts the webmaster if someone has failed multiple logins and then successfully logs in to an account
• Lets you search the logs for the IP address in question to determine whether this is legitimate

(Pro) IP Ban Log Viewer

• Browsable and searchable log of all banned IP addresses (from the point of installing v2)
• Lets you ensure no legitimate members are banned

Multiple Watcher Actions

• Define more than 2 actions per watcher
• Prioritised in the order they are defined
• Gives you even more fine-tuned control over the actions taken against potential intruders

Log Pruning

• Old entries from the adminstrikes, loginstrikes and ipverify tables can be automatically pruned
• Settable in the vBulletin Options
• Defaults to pruning data older than 30 days

Changes To Existing Features:

Security Watcher Log

• Rewritten to improve performance
• Uses a dedicated log table instead of using the datastore

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vBSecurity v2.1.0

New Features:

IP Verification

• IP addresses that have been verified by users or administrators will no longer be subject to IP bans
• Helps prevent false positives

Admin IP Verification: Re-Send Emails

• Administrators can request to re-send the email to verify their IP address
• Useful if the email takes a long time to arrive for whatever reason

User IP Verification: Re-Send Emails

• Users can request to re-send the email to verify their IP address
• Useful if the email takes a long time to arrive for whatever reason

Security Watcher Display

• The time period for the Security Watcher display can be configured
• Default: 7 days
• Controlled via vBulletin Options

(Pro) User IP Verification: Admin Control

• Super Administrators can disable a member?s IP verification setting via the AdminCP user management screen
• Accessed via the User Manager

(Pro) IP Address Search: Country Display

• The IP Address Search screen includes the IP address' country, if your system supports this
• Requires GeoIP2 downloaded database on your server
• Controlled via vBulletin Options

(Pro) IP Host Lookup: Country Display

• The IP Host Lookup screen includes the IP address' country, if your system supports this
• Requires GeoIP2 downloaded database on your server
• Controlled via vBulletin Options

(Pro) IP Address Search: IP Usage

• The IP Address Search displays the first and last logged date for a particular IP in the "Logged IP Addresses" list
• Only displays IP addresses since v2.0.0 was installed.

(Pro) Compromised Accounts Log

• Displays a list of accounts flagged as potentially compromised
• Quick links to users' logged IP addresses as well as displaying current IP address
• Fully searchable
• Can only be viewed by administrators with the "Can View Admin Logs" config.php permission
• Can be pruned by administrators with the "Can Prune Admin Logs" config.php permission

(Pro) Watcher log

• Displays the complete list of all Watcher log entries
• Can be filtered by individual watchers
• Fully searchable
• Can only be viewed by administrators with the "Can View Admin Logs" config.php permission
• Can be pruned by administrators with the "Can Prune Admin Logs" config.php permission

(Pro) User IP Verification log

• Displays the complete list of all user IP Verification entries
• Displays whether the IP has been verified or not
• Fully searchable
• Can only be viewed by administrators with the "Can View Admin Logs" config.php permission
• Can be pruned by administrators with the "Can Prune Admin Logs" config.php permission

(Pro) Admin IP Verification log

• Displays the complete list of all admin IP Verification entries
• Displays whether the IP has been verified or not
• Fully searchable
• Can only be viewed by administrators with the "Can View Admin Logs" config.php permission
• Can be pruned by administrators with the "Can Prune Admin Logs" config.php permission

Changes To Existing Features:

• Consolidated the code that applies watcher actions to enable easy extension in the future
• Config Tampering alerts can now be reset
• Reworded one of the new Log Prune options to clarify what exactly it?s pruning
• All log pages now require the config.php "Can View Admin Logs" setting for additional security
• "AdminCP Logins Viewer" now uses username search instead of a drop-down for improved performance
• "Admin Strikes Viewer" should now perform better as a result of removal of an unreliable feature
• "Login Strikes Viewer" now uses username search instead of a drop-down for improved performance
• "IP Ban Log Viewer" now allows you to filter by action when pruning the log

Bug Fixes:

• An issue where limiting the IP Ban Log by action would not work as intended has been corrected
• "Failed Admin Logins" have been moved to the "Logins" watcher group, as was intended
• Fixed an issue where the Config Tamper watcher log could not be reset

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vBSecurity v2.1.0 Patch Level 3

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where administrators without "Can Administer vBSecurity" could no longer search for IP Addresses (regression)
• Fixed an issue with the Search IP Addresses page on vB3

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vBSecurity v2.1.0 Patch Level 4

Bug Fixes:

• IP Verification should no longer run if the current page is the [DBTech] Two-Factor Authentication page

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