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Chmura · #8 05-13-2011, 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by dale09

I was curious about this as well. Did he schedule a dinner with them? lol

Hahah
I found the kids YouTube channel by the username he left on the defaced page and contacted him. Soon we started chatting on MSN and it turns out it was his buddy whom I also talked to that did the hacking. They somehow decrypted my password and got access to my admin cp where one of them messed with my usergroups, admin etc. Fortunately they didn't delete anything, gave me the admin login and helped me get everything back to normal. After that I followed the tips they gave me to secure the forum.

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Originally Posted by Boofo

As far as changing the admincp and modcp names, it is actually easier and secure enough to just password protect those directories in your htaccess file. Finding out the names to those directories isn't really that hard for someone to do.

Great idea! Will do that too.

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