Thread: How to Protect your Forum from Malware Insertion
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Old 10-26-2012, 07:14 AM
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Default How to Protect your Forum from Malware Insertion
My forum got hacked for the second time in last 12 months ... I was able to recover from backup restore and good help from my hosting folks ...

They gave me the below log this time ...

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91.121.177.53 - - [23/Oct/2012:09:31:30 -0500] "POST /vbseocp.php HTTP/1.1" 200 1326 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; I; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0"
I need to work on permissions on the below one, which is my mistake which i should have foreseen,
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Your config.xml is writable. Don't forget to update permissions after you finish updating the configuration for security purposes.
Below's what i want to discuss really in this thread from a security perspective,

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Is our forum more vulnerable to Hackers, when our VBulletin version and VBSEO version is displayed in public ... Does it make it too easy a job for them to hack ?
For example, when i display my VBulletin version as 4.x at footer in copyright and the hacker sees it and knows its a vulnerable version ... He then works on it and eventually hacks it ...

If i can pay off for the copyright removal, then the Hacker needs to put in additional effort to figure out ways to hack (Is my assumption) ....

I am ready to pay off for copyright removal for VB and VBSEO if it means my chances of getting hacked gets reduced even a little ...

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Experts on Security, please comment ....
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